FOREWORD
The hog industry is well established in Canada, and it looks toward expanding in the future. However,this sector of Canadian economy is facing a number of issues, mostly related to environment, regardingacceptance by the public and the impact on the environment.In the spring of 1997, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada created a multidisciplinary task force todevelop effective and economically viable solutions to the environmental issues arising from hogproduction.The contribution of the Research Branch to this activity has been to collate, through the expertise of ascientific focus group from research centres across the country, the available information from theinternational literature.This report presents the available information and provides a research response to the environmentalchallenge. I hope that it will contribute to the development of solutions for the environmental issuesrelated to the existing and future hog production in Canada.Frank ClaydonDeputy Minister
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