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Ripley, Ontario Canada | It is pretty hard to be big enough to really help the industry and be small enough for the big boys to leave you alone.
Cost of the plant and the inspectors is almost meaningless. While they do cost money, it is not the main cost pressure on a packing plant. The ability to access retail/wholesale stores is the problem. There was a farmer owned cheese plant near me that just closed. One of their problems was shelf space in grocery stores. Every different package needed a sku code that cost tens of thousands each. And if they wanted the cheese used in the deli and the kitchen it was another sku for each place in the store, each kind of cheese, each size package. The problem is the collusion at the retail end. Unless you can get federal government help to break that monopoly the idea is dead. If you get that you are golden, and even Canadian's might be interested in investing in the plant. | |
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