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OCA Agreement to Administer the BSE Recovery Program Cull Animal Fund
- April, 2004 General
Notes
The OCA/OMAF agreement has been signed and a $3 million
cheque received and deposited in a separate OCA account.
Funding is allocated to four projects:
Ontario
cattle ID tag retirement, an emergency management welfare response, deadstock
disposal, and market and product development for commercial cull cow meat.
The OCA-OMAF agreement also sets the parameters for OCA to establish an
Industry Development Fund (IDF) account and strategy. This fund will receive a
25% payback from the $7m Mature Animal Abattoir Fund. Anticipate $1.75m to flow
back to OCA beginning in January 2007.
Four Projects under the $3m Program
- Each project will be managed and accountable to an Advisory
Committee composed of OCA, Dairy Farmers of Ontario and OFA. OMAF will be
included on the committee to discuss the $1m Product/Market Development of Cull
Cow Meat and the Emergency Animal Welfare fund.
- Semi-annual reports must be submitted to OMAF.
- Ontario Cattle ID tag retirement. $200,000 to Beef Improvement Ontario based on an MOU with OCA:
- continue tag retirement (focus on small plants and deadstock);
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provide funding to create and implement the electronic tag data
capture system;
- develop industry partnerships to capture data on cattle where gaps in data
capture currently exist .
- Emergency Animal Welfare Fund - $500,000
- provide financial assistance to the OSPCA for costs associated
with providing food, care, transport and/or shelter where ruminant livestock
seized due to animal welfare issues;
- address public perceptions regarding the care of cattle.
- Deadstock
Disposal - $1.3m based on an MOU with OCA
- OCA will provide funding to the Livestock Mortality Recycling Project
Steering Committee to administer a program to ensure continued deadstock
collection.
- Product
and Market Development for commercial cull cow meat- $1m. OCA will develop a
response to:
- expand and diversify the national and international markets for commercial
meat;
- work across the industry value chain to identify gaps to using Ontario cuill cows for domestically produced commercial meat products;
- add value to commercial meat products;
- identify and implement best practices for capturing and expanding
commercial meat products;
Industry
Development Fund (IDF) Strategy
This fund will receive up to $1.75m in re-payment from the Mature
Animal Abattoir Fund. OCA is required to develop a strategy and submit to OMAF
by November 2006 based on direction from the Advisory Committee. The IDF
strategy will involve all ruminant production and processing in developing a 3-5
year vision for the industry. |
