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Thank a Farmer.
Better Farming
December 2016
RISING
ELECTRICAL
COSTS
THE RISING COST OF HYDROELECTRIC
POWER ON THE FARM
Do farmers get value for their money? Can they reduce costs?
Better Farming
investigates.
Rudy Heeman and his family own and operate the Heeman’s Garden Centre and Strawberry Farm in
Middlesex County near London. He’s holding one of the family farm operation’s monthly bills. The cost
of electricity is rising at this farm, as it is across most other farms in Ontario.