The Rural Voice, 2002-04, Page 55Ag News
Perth County wins right to host 2005 IPM
Midwestern Ontario residents
won't have far to go to attend the
International Plowing Match in the
the next few years. Perth County is
the latest local county to win the
right to host the IPM, this time in
2005. Its bid was selected by the
annual meeting of the Ontario
Plowmen's Association in London.
The site for the match has already
been chosen, Carson Farms &
Auctions, east of Listowel, owned by
Huron model bylaw already has exceptions
Huron County councillors passed a
model nutrient management bylaw at
their March meeting with the hope
that all municipalities would adopt it,
but before the meeting was over one
reeve already indicated his council
would be making changes.
Keith Johnston, said Morris-
Turnberry councillors wanted to
make changes in the bylaw which
planner Scott Tousaw had earlier
expressed hope would be adopted by
municipalities so there can be one
county -wide set of rules for farmers
seeking to expand.
"We'd ask councillors to resist the
temptation to change it," Tousaw
said.
But Johnston said in a later
interview that his council feels the
suggestion that 25 per cent of the
land required for spreading of
manure should be owned by the
applicant to build a new barn isn't
adequate. His council is looking at a
50 per cent requirement,. he said.
The township also thinks 150 days
of storage for dry manure is
adequate, not the 240 days suggested
in the model bylaw.
"We'd caution municipalities not
to go below OMAFRA's
recommendations," Tousaw said.
Tousaw explained that only local
municipalities have the power to
enact the bylaw, designed to bridge
the gap until the province passes its
own nutrient management
legislation, providing province -wide
standards. Huron County planners
have provided much advice to the
province and some people believe the
provincial legislation will resemble
the model bylaw.
The bylaw, designed by an 18 -
member working group that included
representatives of farm groups,
ratepayer groups, conservation
authority staff, county councillors
and municipal officials, requires a
NMP for all new or expanding
livestock operations of 100 or more
animal units, whether using dryyor
liquid manure systems. NMPs must
be renewed every three years.
The applicant must own 25 per
cent of the land on which manure
will be spread, and all the land must
be within 15 km of the barn.
For smaller projects, no more than
1.5 livestock units per tillable acre
will be allowed.
There must be 240 days of storage
for dry manure, 365 days for liquid.
Liquid manure tanks must be a
minimum of one metre above the
water table and dry manure storages
must be covered or have runoff
containment facilities.0
David Carson and son Brad.
It will be the fourth time Perth has
hosted the match with the previous
matches being in 1930, 1972 and
1988, but it will be the first time the
match has been held in the north end
of the county.
The honour of hosting the match
has a special meaning for David
Carson because his father, the late
Albert Carson, was president of the
OPA in 1987 and was instrumental in
planning both the 1972 and 1988
matches. Carson said his mother still
takes an active interest in the IPM
and his son and grandchildren will
also be involved.
Co-chairs of the successful bid
committee were David S,hearer of
Milverton, Doug Aitchison of
Listowel and Bert Vorstenbosch of
Mitchell.
The 2002 match will be held in
Middlesex County near Glencoe and
the 2004 IPM will be held in Grey
County.0
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