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On the Farm, Supplement of The Canadian Statesman/Newcastle Independent, Wednesday, March 31,1993 , .* » < t t i A i. # a i , i Criticizes Farm Marketing Boards by Lorraine Manfredo Lome Allin is one of only a few Ontario pork producers whose income income is made exclusively from Pigs. The civil engineer-tumed-farmer only started in die business 10 years ago, but his business has been profitable profitable ever since. Lately, he's been planning a major expansion into the States. Allin keeps a sow herd of about 300 on his 100-acre farm north of Newcastle. He leases most of that land to his brother, Hugh, for cropping. cropping. Lome Allin decided at the outset of his farming venture to approach the job as a "business" rather than as "a way of life." He has sharp criticism for the provincial marketing board system, which he feels allows farmers to become become complacent in their reliance on government subsidies. "The only route to survival survival is the adoption of an efficient business approach." approach." "The only route to survival is the adoption of an efficient business approach," approach," argues Allin. He feels this not only holds true for individual farmers, but for the entire provincial pork industry as well. The entire industry faces collapse, collapse, Allin warns, if it remains closed to new ideas. "It's going to change or it's going to die." He suggests it may be time to abandon subsidies and the compulsory compulsory marketing board. Opposition to the Ontario Pork Producers' Marketing Marketing Board has been growing steadily for the past several years, he notes. Allin hopes to triple the size of his herd within the next couple of years. Most of the growth he expects expects will occur in the States. Working in the US will allow him the freedom to make independent independent alliances with American pork processors and retailers of his choosing. Currently, in Ontario the marketing system prohibits produc- Poaching goes against our nature! V . Canadian Wildlife Federation For more information, call 1-800-563-9453 ers forming suçh ties. "We don't have the opportunity to differentiate our product here," he says. His first load of 600 weaner piglets piglets was sent this month to a farm in Ohio. He plans to supply more piglets piglets on a monthly basis and will have the opportunity to extend his contract after one year. His other interests in the United States at present include an investment investment in a new farm in Pennsylvania and a marketing arrangement with a pork finisher in Indiana. The Pennsylvania Pennsylvania investment should begin to pay off within a year and a half he hopes. Allin is also considering a possible possible involvement in a multi-million- dollar farm operation in New York with 5 acres of bams. "That project is on the front burner," he said. One reason he wants to get into the American market is because of the farmers' relationship to the packing industry there. "We are a captive market here," he says. Ontario packers take nearly twice as much percentage as packers in the U.S. They're either making obscene obscene amounts of money or they're inefficient, Allin said. "In a competitive industry there's no room for this adversarial relationship relationship between members along the value chain. You have to be a team," he explained. Although Allin's current focus appears to be aimed south of the border, he will continue to stay in contact with influential Canadian agriculture professionals lobbying for change' in the way Ontario markets markets its pork. Lome Allin is an active participant participant in a two-year program called the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Leadership Program. AALP participants learn about the agri-business and the world in which it operates. Participants Participants develop communication and decision-making skills and gain confidence confidence to meet the challenges of the future. Through AALP, Lome Allin has visited farming operations in New England and Quebec. His next trip this spring takes him to France, Belgium, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany- Germany- . Lome Allin was previously employed employed as an administrator of farm drainage legislation for the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. "I always knew I'd end up back on the farm," he said. "I'm too independent independent to work for someone else." - • : ■ : ' ; v - v ' "" ■ • ■ ■ p Lome Allin is all set to expand his pork production business into the United States this spring. The Newcastle farmer visits Europe next month as a participant in the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program. Schwarz Bros Livestock Ltd. Suppliers and Buyers of Purebred and High Grade Holsteins and all dairy breeds. Schwarz Bros. Livestock Ltd. 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