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DFO’S START-UP PROGRAM HELPS WALKER FARMS LAUNCH ON-FARM PROCESSING By Tamara Botting
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hile funding from Dairy Farmers of Ontario’s (DFO) Start-Up Program was a huge help, the truly invaluable component was the advice, knowledge and guidance offered through the program’s facilitators as his family’s farm entered a new venture, says Scott Walker, manager of Walker Farms Inc., just east of Alymer, Ont. “We had this idea to process bottle all our milk in one location. We were playing with the idea for five or six years,” Walker says. He says when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was replaced by the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), there were a lot of questions about what the industry might look like down the road. This became the turning point for the farm. Continued on page 18
WALKER FARMS INC., just east of Alymer, Ont., recently opened an on-site processing plant to bottle its milk. This project was done with help from Dairy Farmers of Ontario’s Start-Up Program. Photo courtesy of Walker Farm Inc.
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