It’s one of the key projects in a four-year $140-million
budget the cooperative unveiled this week.
Another project is $3 million for a research and development
centre at Hamilton.
The Dairy Farmers of Ontario marketing board has been urging
processors to invest in modern facilities to compete in the ingredients markets
where imports have been threatening the long-term viability of Canada’s supply
management system.
Many ingredients have been able to escape high tariffs that
are a key to enabling the supply-management system to price milk to reflect the
cost of production and return profits to farmers.
