A new business opportunity for farmers, or more aggravation for the neighbours?
by Mary Baxter
Storing municipal waste or other biosolids on farms is not new to Ontario – provided what was being stored would be spread on the property. But now some farmers are looking to store waste that will be spread elsewhere, and local residents are up in arms
In 2006, Nick and Colleen Wiendels experienced the unthinkable. The couple, who farm near Poplar Hill just north of London, saw their hog barn burn to the ground – for the second time.
Losses were devastating. All 1,000 animals in the barn were destroyed.