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From raising hogs to farming shrimp

Who knew it would take five years of red tape before Paul and Tracy Cocchio could convert their hog barns into Ontario’s first shrimp farm?

Reading Time: 6 minutes Walking into Paul and Tracy Cocchio’s barn on a cold Ontario morning feels like a visit to the tropics, and rightly so, because the livestock the Cocchios are raising originate in decidedly warmer parts of the world. You might say the barn is a kind of greenhouse for the animal side of agriculture, with the […] Read more