04/07/2008 15:36. Ontario is producing more cattle and hogs than it has home-grown corn to feed them, making those sectors uncompetitive on a cost basis, the George Morris Centre observes in a new report.

The Guelph-based ag think tank on Thursday released a new report that warns those Ontario livestock sectors may be headed for "harsh adjustments," meaning substantially reduced marketings, to get the red meat segment back on a cost-competitive footing.

"It's hard to have an export-based industry when we are importing corn from the U.S., exporting livestock and meat back to the U.S., and effectively paying the freight both ways using the same production technology," said Al Mussell, a senior research associate at the centre and co-author of the report.

Mussell and co-authors Graeme Hedley and Anatoliy... // Canadian Cattlemen

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