Farming and Food Production Protection Act, 1998 (S.O. 1998, c. 1).

The purpose of the present Act is to ensure the protection of the agricultural community. The Act contains at the outset a definition clause relating to various terms employed therein such as, for example, “agricultural machinery and equipment”, “agricultural operation”, “Board”, “disturbance”, “farmer”, “normal farm practice”, “processing”. According to section 2, a farmer is not liable in nuisance to any person for a disturbance resulting from an agricultural operation carried on as a normal f