Environment committee  As far as the pesticides and fertilizers that are being used are concerned, they are being used according to the regulations. To be able to buy pesticides, farmers need to take a course to understand how to use them properly. Using integrated pest management means that you look a

Environment committee  —and regulations, yes.

Environment committee  As for people being able to come out to experience farms, there are some farms in the park now that have pick your own. If you're thinking more along the lines of agricultural education type farms, that was one of the suggestions that Parks Canada put forward in the management pl

Environment committee  The prioritization we would like to be equal with the environmental concerns and natural heritage protection. I'm sorry, what was the other point?

Environment committee  The farmers already are using environmental farm plans. They're already using best management practices. From our initial consultations with Parks Canada, we have suggested that those would be what we would be looking for as a standard so that the farmers know what's expected of

Environment committee  An environmental farm plan is a plan that was created by farmers. It is a plan that comes with a workshop. You sit down with a binder that shows what.... It's basically around water health and environmental health. You look at your farm based on the criteria that are in the book.

Environment committee  Yes, the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association helps to run the program, and it's available there.

Environment committee  For best management practices, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has a whole set of best management practice books that you can look at.

Environment committee  We watched the farmland south of Steeles disappear, so that only that 10% of heritage farms were left. We became much more involved once the farmers started getting notices to cancel their lease in creating the Bob Hunter park. There is definitely the fear that there will be othe

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  It bothers us. Those millions of other people eat just about every day. But as for the industrial comments, some people believe that because the tractors are bigger, because the equipment is bigger, because of economies of scale, this has meant that we farm...as in a lot of oth

Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  The need to preserve the farmland is so it stays in production. Adopting conservation projects that would take land out of production would be one thing, but as far as having farmers using best management practices or methods that would still guarantee production at the same leve