At the Lennoxville Research Station, an experimental protocol will be developed to evaluate the characteristics of odours. The project will also study the effectiveness of feed and manure additives for mitigating manure odours and their impacts on the health of workers and livestock, and the physical environment . At the Agassiz component of the Pacific Agricultural Research Centre, scientists will develop a quick test for the elemental composition of swine manure. Four environment related research projects have already been approved for funding by CPC members. Other individual proposals will be scrutinized by the Multistakeholder committee of the CPC in October and again in February.
Projects already approved include the following.
The future of the HEMS initiative is now being examined, as well as funding for further years. In its review, Commerce examined federal and provincial government agricultural program payments to hog producers in Canada and determined that no countervailing duty needed to be paid on live hogs exported to the United States during that period. The rate to be charged on current and future shipments of live swine will remain at zero as a result of this decision, a deposit rate that has been in effect since April of 1997. The Council is very pleased to have these calculations completed. As a result of the elimination some time ago of income stabilization programs for hog producers, there no longer are sufficient countervailing duty by the United States government.