The Rural Voice, 2002-04, Page 38RMW FARMS LTD.
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combination
minimizes runoff
makes manure incorporation
more effective
puts manure into top 8" of
soil without turning cover
crops
aerway cuts like a blade and
Lifts gently
- works in hay crop & pasture
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Frank admits that with so many
variations in building restrictions
across the province that can be an
advantage. Even in Acre T's own
'backyard in Huron County, one of
the most livestock -friendly
jurisdictions, some townships have
complete moratoriums on large
livestock units.
With that in mind, Frank
welcomes in passing of Bill 81, the
provincial government's Nutrient
Management Act. "We firmly
support the concept of province wide
rules," says Frank who has contracts
with farmers from Napanee in the
east to Sarnia in the west.
he current situation is a barrier
T
to expansion, he says. "There's
nothing wrong with regulation
and monitoring as long as it's
sensible and it's applied evenly all
across the province."
He also supports Huron County's
new model Nutrient Management
Bylaw which is being prepared with
the hope local municipalities will
pass it and standardize regulations
across the county until Bill 81 is
implemented.
"The Huron County proposal
makes sense," he says. "It makes you
do your homework, as it should."
The company has had its share of
black eyes on building projects and
environmental problems, and that's
one of the places the company has
had to improve, he says. It now has
more expertise in nutrient
management planning and in
currently seeking ISO 14001
registration, a third -party inspected
system that shows its compliance
with environmentally friendly
principles.
The contracting philosophy is part
of the medium range plan to expand
to 25,000 sows. This production will
supply the new West perth Packers
state-of-the-art packing plant at
Mitchell, scheduled to g9 into
production this fall. Currently the
company produces under Maple
Leaf Pork Signature Pork contracts
but when the contracts expire the
pigs will provide a 5,000 pig -per -
week base for West Perth, a
partnership between Miriam Terpstra
of Acre -T Farms of Brussels, and
Larry and Glenn Tulpin of Norfolk
Packers in St. Williams. It will be a
federally -inspected kill and chill