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CFO moving forward with digitization of auditing functions

By Canadian Poultry magazine   

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Board expects enhancements will streamline farm audit process, improve reporting.

Chicken Farmers of Ontario (CFO), with support through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership’s Place to Grow: Agri-Food Innovation Initiative, is moving forward with the digitization of auditing functions and improved information sharing across the Ontario chicken supply chain.

This project was funded by the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (the Partnership), a five-year, $3- billion investment by Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments to strengthen and grow Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sector.

This commitment includes $2-billion in cost-shared programs, 60 per cent from the federal government and 40 per cent from the provincial/territorial government, which are designed and delivered by provinces and territories to meet regional needs while advancing national priorities.

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In 2015, CFO launched CFO Connects, a digital platform that transformed the way the chicken industry does business.

Building on that success, the approved project will leverage Partnership funding support from the Canadian and Ontario governments to enhance and expand the auditing functionality of the CFO Connects platform.

CFO expects these enhancements will streamline the farm audit process and improve reporting, leading to even greater efficiency and productivity in sector regulation and increased ability for the chicken supply chain to respond to the risk of avian diseases.

“Modernizing our business transactions and auditing functions through digitization is one way that CFO is supporting farmers in doing what they do best, feeding Ontarians with safe, healthy, locally-grown chicken,” says CFO chair Ed Benjamins.

“All Ontario chicken farmers operate under the high standards of the verifiable On-Farm Food Safety Program and Animal Care Program, and these enhancements to CFO Connects will provide CFO and our farmer-members with greater capacity and information to identify and address risks promptly and proactively.”

Through advancements in technology, such as mobile cameras, farmers and auditors can record and submit documentation more easily and in less time.

Auditors will be able to review documentation through the CFO Connects platform in advance of on-farm audits, allowing them to focus inspections on critical aspects such as physical environments, biosecurity, animal care practices, and on-farm procedures.


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