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A16 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 24, 2006 .

From front

Egg farm —
_ gets warned

into creating an enforcement

measure then they : likely

won't | appreciated” the
result.” .
Part of the order’ requires

‘Daybreak Farms to hire a
professional environmental

farm planner to help create a
‘program to ensure the farm
“follows normal farm prac-
tices, explains FIRB general
“manager Jim Collins. ~~
Daybreak has also failed

“to. comply with an order to’

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- have’ its ‘consultant forward”

his credentials and plan to” -

‘the board, says Colitis, ~

“Basically. no ‘such cer-
‘tification or, plan: has been.
received from the ‘profes-
sional,” he says, adding that .
“certification was supposed to
‘be received within 10 days .
of. the May 2005 decision. .
_: The ‘Farm : Practices .Pro-
. tection Act, which ° governs”
' the: board, .is set. up in such:

“to enter new. evidenée after
“the conclusion of a hearing,

Collins says.

- In addition to curbing the ae E
fly problem, FIRB ordered ©
Floritto to replace adirt floor °
in one of the barns with ce-.
ment to help’ manage manure’ .
and reduce seepage into the

: surrounding i area 7

- But. Floritto ‘says a new.

” floor has a‘ hefty price tag,

maybe as muchas $200,000,

‘and . would take. several

weeks to complete... > |
‘He's also worried about --
‘the impact on’ his business
arid wants the board ’‘to: ‘give :..
him: some leeway: in terms. |:
of establishing a timeline to ~

have the work done. 8

“They, want. a. specific.

time frame and I can’t give

. them one and. if they: had...
Me a_ brain ‘they’d know -

he said, citing weathe!

a ‘way. as ‘to protect. farmers ° a

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a

. fro ‘frivolous lawsuits ¢
has: no provisions for. en-
forcement. _ :

* “The legislation was nev-
er ‘written: with: the view to”
. finding: ways to. force farm-
“ers to comply. and that’ 's the. €
, challenge: we’. face here,”

: ‘says. Bel

‘This: is -really . one of:

times farmers. have .

‘acted “ina way, that doesn’t .

‘seem reasonable.”

Bell: says ‘the ‘iain’ 7

with Daybreak ‘Farms’ high-

tights a ea in‘the iow

the province ‘needs to address

“the issue of: enforcement..

“TE. you are: asking

| “if Tm going to bring legis-

“lation forward I can’t tell
“you that yet because I don’t |
-know that answer,” Bell said’
‘last week.: :

"But the general manager"
of . - Daybreak Farms. says

-his farm.does not have a fly

problem and that FIRB i isis. ~

overstepping its ‘bounds. *

“I would: say we are one-
of the best farms i dn the prov-..
ince when it comes to con-
trolling our. fly population. :
And.I know that because .
I’ve been toa lot of farms,”
says Ron Floritto.

He maintains. his farm “|
‘is not.the reason his neigh- «

bours have a fly problem. He :
Says-the flies they collected |
as‘evidence against him are |

not the same:flies as those on _

- his farm. -
_ An, examination done by:
an insect expert the week af-
ter the 2004 hearing shows:

__ the flies at’ Floritto’s neigh-. *

‘ours were green bottle flies, ”

which ‘are. usually. attracted ©
to rotting meat.
The flies céllected at his

farm however, were .Fannia.

‘flies.or “little house flies.” -
_ “The flies they were trap- .
ping didn’t come from here,”
Floritto says.

Numerous residents bor- ;

dering: the farm’s property
“have small ‘compost piles,
wood piles and tall grass
where flies are known to
breed. |

~ able to question if ‘those

Floritto says it’s reason-

might’ be ° other potential
sources of the fly problem, .
but FIRB .declined his re- .

quest to submit that infor-.

mation.to the board.
It’s unusual for the board

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