The plant manager for Prince Edward Island’s ill-fated NOFG pork processing plant has been hired as the new executive director for the Prince Edward Island Hog Commodity Marketing Board.
Tim Seeber has over 30 years’ experience in the industry, currently as the plant manager for the Charlottetown facility that Quebec City-based NOFG recently handed over to the province, the P.E.I. government said in a release Wednesday.
Seeber replaces Bob Harding, who left the hog board at the end of January for a position with the provincial potato marketing board.
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“As the (NOFG) plant is presently operating under the control of a receiver, Seeber will continue in his current position with NOFG PEI for the foreseeable future,” the province wrote in its release. However, either Seeber or another board director will respond to any concerns or questions from hog producers who contact the board office, the province said.
NOFG (short for Natural Organic Food Group) bought the former Garden Province Meats facility in Charlottetown in August 2006 to begin marketing organic pork under the PEI Natural, PEI Organic and PEI Omega 3 brands. The company took in hogs for slaughter from across the Maritimes and from Quebec.
The P.E.I. government announced in December that it would withhold any further cash aid to the plant. Last month it called in a $1.5 million loan to the company.
