The Rural Voice, 1998-03, Page 33go to fix them," Ridder says.
The committee has been meeting
monthly to prepare its application for
funding of $15,000 to go along with
$5,000 which has already been
promised from farm organizations.
The money could pay for the study
which would be carried out under the
supervision of Professor Douglas Joy
of the University of Guelph. The aim,
says Ridder, is to have the
researchers verify the data that has
been collected "so that it's not our
judgement but that the scientific
community says it is so." It's also
hoped that if the study goes ahead, it
will create a process that other
regions will be able to plug in their
own data to create similar studies.
The competition for funding
under the National Soil and
Water Conservation Program
will be stiff, with many other
projects competing for the
available funds. Other sources of
funding are also uncertain.
Municipalities, Ridder says, have lent
moral support but haven't promised
any financial help. "It's too big a
project for the agricultural comm-
unity to finance on its own," he says.
If the funding is found, a graduate
student will be hired under Professor
Joy's supervision and the project
would likely take about eight months.
Wayne Caldwell, senior planner
with the Huron County Planning and
Development Department says
getting a full spectrum of information
would be helpful in trying to bring
the community together on issues of
food production and the
environment. On the one hand, he
says, there are the people who would
like to ban Targe, intensive
operations. On the other extreme
there are some statistics to show that
large operations are the safest for the
environment because there is a better
level of management involved than
with smaller operations that aren't so
concerned about the dangers of
manure storage or application. "The
truth lies somewhere between the two
extremes," he says.
Caldwell, who has volunteered as
secretary of the group, has been in
the eye of the storm over the role of
intensive livestock operations in
Huron since 1996, when Grey
Township initiated setting up a
committee involving representatives
from his department, OMAFRA, and
several building and municipal
officials. Grey has a concentration of
some of the largest livestock
operations in the province and there
was concern with the Targe amount of
manure being produced. The result of
the committee was the development
of a new model building bylaw
which has since been adopted,
sometimes in modified form, by most
townships in Huron. It calls for a
nutrient management plan to be
prepared before a building permit is
issued for livestock operations with
more than 150 livestock units.
Nutrient management plans have
since become a hot topic across the
province.
As part of Huron's plan, a
committee was set up in the tall of
1997 to examine how the nutrient
management plans are working. The
county appointed five HFEC
representatives to this committee,
along with members of the original
Grey Township committee, three
rep'esentatives of the public at large
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