The Rural Voice, 1988-08, Page 37which look similar to compost.
Lawrence Andres has a 300 -acre
mixed farm near Tiverton. He
designed an aeration system for liquid
manure which composts the manure.
He also composts his solid manure
and is selling the compost.
There are also some Ontario beef
farmers who feed poultry litter to their
cattle, but they are keeping quiet.
But most farmers are still storing
their manure in the barn and are
spreading it on their land when they
can, and this is a potential source of
conflict, more now than ever.
PLANNING THE FUTURE
Don Dunn, who was chairman of
the Ontario Right to Farm Advisory
Committee, thinks "it is natural that
there will be incompatibility between
different operations. There will even
be problems between a tobacco farmer
who has labourers and the odors from
a neighbouring livestock farm."
Dunn adds that the right -to -farm
legislation is necessary to cope with
the inevitable problems that come
from mistakes made in planning. He
is convinced that the main answer
would be to have good planning
policies and compatible operations
placed next to each other.
Even though there have been very
few cases that have gone to court, the
potential for problems is there, and
farmers who are already feeling that
their livelihoods are threatened would
like legislation in place to protect
them from a potential problem.
C. F. de Deckere, from St.
Thomas, who made one of the 460
submissions to the right -to -farm
advisory committee, thinks the
problem is obvious. "I believe the
problem is psychological. If you live
out your life in an urban area, you're
not used to a next-door neighbour
raising livestock, or running noisy
equipment, or working late at night to
get the harvest off."
The submission from the
Wellington County Council seems to
summarize the general feeling in the
rural community. "The right -to -farm
legislation may well provide the
means of protecting farmers and lay-
ing down the ground rules for both
farmers and non-farmers.0
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