1. Is it Right for Your Community?
Industrial Farming
Is it Right for Your Community?

2. Definition of Industrial Farming
The owner of the operation does not live on the land/farm where the activities take place. 2.    Other farmers do not like to live next to the operations that are of concern.  These farmers complain too. 3.    The operations have very little connection with the local economy i.e. Labour force; expenditures; sale of products while imposing costs on the local economy in a disproportionate way. 4.    The activities severely impact the enjoyment and use of neighbouring properties in ways that would not be permitted for any other industry.
Richard Enns – Coldstream Councillor

3. Coral Beach Farms in Lavington

4. ALR Properties in Lavington

5. Quick Facts About Cherries
Due to sensitivity to spring frosts and untimely rains, sweet cherries can be grown commercially in only a few locations in Canada.
British Columbia produces 76% (971 hectares) of the Canadian crop. Ontario produces about 24% (304 hectares) and there is a small acreage in Nova Scotia (8 hectares), Manitoba and Quebec. (Source: Statistics Canada (2005).

6. Where Do They Grow Best
Cherries grow well on a variety of well-drained soils but are highly susceptible to poor drainage. Loam soils are ideal because they are easy to manage and generally have balanced nutrition and a good pH.
The ideal site for an orchard is on a sloping hill, with a grade of 4 to 8% to allow for air drainage, surface water drainage and good light exposure.
Location within 3 or 4 km from a body of water is also desirable as the water body can provide a moderating effect on temperatures in the spring and protect from spring frosts. A pH of 6.0 to 6.5 is ideal for cherry orchards

7. From R. Martin – Lavington Resident
The cherry orchard is one businessman growing a climatically inappropriate crop who contributes very little to the community. I say climatically inappropriate as any crop that requires that much mechanical intervention to produce is not planted in the right place"

8. Mechanical Interventions
Frost Protection
Sprayer

9. Flying Under the 500 foot Ceiling

10. You can expect the sprays below to be applied over the next 3-5 days based on the above
conditions.
TOXICITY
Oral LD Dermal LD
(mg/kg) (mg/kg)
Very Toxic (V) 0 to 50 0 to 200
Moderately Toxic (M) 51 to to 1,000
Slightly Toxic (S) 501 to to 2499
Relatively Non Toxic (RN) over 2500 over 2500
UPCOMING SPRAYS - October 11 - October 30
During the next couple of weeks we will be applying nutrients and copper to protect leaf scars

11. Night Spraying

12. What Are They Spraying Who Knows! Copper Oxychloride Nutrients
Maybe This…or not…
Nutrients
Insecticides
Fungicides
Growth Regulators
Copper Oxychloride
Fluxapyroxad
Flonicamid
Chlorothaionil
Triforine

13. Who is Monitoring or Testing
NO ONE
Complaint Based Only

14. What Can Local Council Do
Local Council can designate an agricultural philosophy via their OCP
Local Councils can regulate Temporary Farm Worker Housing
Local Governments can approve or deny building permits based on compliance to zoning regulations

15. Fair Farm Practices Act – Right to Farm
What it was Meant to Do
What it Does
Protect Normal Farm Practices from Nuisance Complaints
Protects Factory Farms from Regulations that would Apply to Any Other Industry

16. Temporary Farm Worker Housing
SAWP Program
For Fruit Growers
Imports workers from Mexico, Central America and Jamica
Regulated by the Federal Government
Provides a cheap compliant work force
Additional Income in rent and tax deductions
Must be on location to reap maximum benefits

17. What is Allowed
11 People in 700 sq. feet
No Local Inspection

18. What Can Communities Do
Demand Local Councils enact a Temporary Farm Workers Housing Bylaw to Limit the Number of Workers that can Reside on any given piece of ALR Land
Identify large tract holdings with environmental significance and ask for axel weight restrictions on the roads surrounding them

19. What Can Communities Do
Lobby your MLA to change the Fair Farm Practices Act and allow municipalities a greater say in what agricultural practices are desired (or not acceptable) in their communities
Right to Farm should not mean Right to Harm

20. Coming Soon to A Neighborhood Near You