Building Local Markets Through Sustainable Agriculture. Allen Kilback Choice Family Meats, Processor & Retailer

Kilback Stock Farms  Primary Production begins 1990

Kilback Stock Farms  Significant Growth through 90’s

Kilback Stock Farms  New Millennium = New Opportunities

Kilback Stock Farms

Growing Industry  Rural Economic Development Initiatives spurred growth  New ‘World Class’ Processing Facility launched in Brandon  Saskatchewan HAD the lowest cost of production IN THE WORLD.

Kilback Stock Farms  No Production by 2009

Collapse or Opportunity?  Scale back began in 2007  - At time breeding output was at highest level  Canadian Cull Breeding Program  $500/sow  Canadian Hog Transitional Program  $995/animal unit

Choice Family Meats

Value Chain  Procumbent of Supply  Slaughter  Processing  Value Adding  Packaging  Freight

Understanding Local Products  Research  Contact  Quality  Commitment

Retail Consumers  Education & the Educated  Supply  Seasonal  Price

Your Choice …

Grocery Markets

Choice or No Choice?  They have Brilliant people working for them.

Wholesale Market  Compare Price to Maple Leaf & Olymeal  Our Price should be lower / All about Price  Need to capture a Premium on Product.  Freight

Food Service  More Local Branded Products on Menus  Health and Wellness  Local / Slow Foods  Fair Trade  Environment

Sustainable Food System  Education  Local Food Strategy  Fair Trade  More Linkages in the Value Chain

Consumer has the power  Believe  Make the Positive Steps Forward  Commitment  What are we all going to do?

Thank You  Allen B. Kilback  Choice Family Meats  320 Great Plains Road  Emerald Park  S4L 1C8 