The Rural Voice, 2019-06, Page 53and no standards with where to put it
and how we handle what leaks out.”
Nutrient management plans help
farmers meet the balance between
nutrients, crops and water protection.
Also, Huron and other counties have
agronomic experts to help with
decision making. However, it’s still
so very complicated.
“It’s a tangled nightmare of
regulatory processes, different
standards, different ministries
regulating these things and different
levels of government,” sighed
Laporte. “At the end we have farmers
trying to pull out strings and figure
out what is the best option for their
farms.”
Add concerns by the Source
Water protection committee and
lakeshore advocates and it all
becomes a tangled nightmare.
“It’s tough,” admitted Laporte. “I
do it for a living and I brought two
colleagues along to answer your
questions. And, to be honest, I don’t
know what the answer is because a
one-size solution doesn’t work
either.”
Jim Ginn, the Mayor of Central
Huron, a member of the Water
Protection Steering Committee and a
farmer agreed.
“In the early 1990s there was
revolution in farming including new
systems on how to raise pigs. It was
quite an advancement for production
but took a little while for technology
to catch up with the liquid waste,” he
said. “It continued to change ... how
do we get those valuable nutrients on
the land to grow crops and keep it out
our water ... it’s a challenge.”
Challenge Accepted!
Someone who came with ideas
and best practices to meet that
challenge was Christine Brown, a
field crops sustainability specialist
with OMAFRA.
Brown presented the radical idea
of building a manure pipeline for
manure to be transported from
livestock farmers to crop farmers.
“We need neighbourhood nutrient
planning,” she suggested. “In this
county there are a lot of pig farms.
They don’t need all that manure but
how do we set a price on it. The
logistics are hard but maybe with a
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