Goose processors face $1.77-million suit over old loan
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FARM Credit Canada has filed a $1.77-million civil suit against the owners of a Teulon goose processing plant.
The suit against Northern Goose Processors Ltd., a numbered company from Teulon (73969 Manitoba Ltd.) and Northern Goose founder Don Salkeld were filed late last week in the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench.
The action centres on an unpaid $1.5-million loan dating back to 2008. The claim against the two companies is for $1.77 million plus interest and costs, while the claim against Salkeld, who guaranteed the loan, is for $1.5 million plus interest and costs.
An FCC spokesperson declined to comment.
A statement of defence has not been filed and Salkeld could not be reached. No one was answering the phone at the Teulon plant.
Teulon Mayor Bert Campbell said the plant hasn’t processed geese for about 21/2 years. But it appears to still be producing down-filled pillows, comforters and other bedding products, he said.
Campbell said there appears to be only a few people working at the plant.
“They have a state-of-the art processing plant for feathers and down. It’s so automated it only takes a few people to run it.”
Salkeld put the plant up for sale in 2009 and a local Métis investment fund — the Metis Economic Development Organization (MEDO) — looked into buying it last year. But CEO Blake Russell said the deal fell through after MEDO was unable to secure financing.
Russell said MEDO has since moved on to other projects and is no longer interested in the Teulon plant.
Campbell said he’d like to see the plant return to full production because of the jobs it would create. At the height of its operations in the mid-1990s, the plant was processing up to 240,000 geese a year and employed 75 to 80 workers during the fall processing period and 20 to 25 during the rest of the year. It also had 20 to 25 Hutterite colonies supplying it with birds.
murray.mcneill@freepress.mb.ca