Government of Ontario: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

This form is for those applicants that choose NOT to use the NMAN software to prepare the Nutrient Management Strategy they are required to submit to the Province of Ontario. Please ensure you read all the material. Once completed and signed, this is a legal document that you have certified to be correct. This form, once completed with the required attachments, will constitute the Nutrient Management Strategy. It is your responsibility to review/follow Ontario Regulation 267/03, as amended. The Reviewer's Checklist is a good reference tool when completing your application.

• Please ensure to retain a copy of your completed NM Strategy (and NM Plan, if applicable) for your records. Please note, approved documents will not be returned. It is your responsibility to keep copies of the documents that comprise your approved NMS.
• You will be contacted by OMAFRA staff if you are required to provide additional information during the review process.
• Upon approval, your NM Strategy is valid for a period of 5 years. At that time, you are not required to resubmit, but are required to update the NM Strategy and to keep it on file and available for inspection, if requested.

1. Reason for submission (expanding operation, new operation, planned changes).
2. Type and size of operation.
3. Overview of livestock/poultry facilities and practices that impact nutrient management,e.g. all in/all out; feed additives used.
4. Prescribed material produced or received, including all Non-agricultural source material (NASM).
5. Overview of cropping and management practices.

1. Please attach the Farm Unit Declaration form.
2. For corporations, please attach a copy of the first page of your Articles of Incorporation showing the incorporation number. If there has been a name and/or address change please attach MCBS Schedule A (part of the T23 Corporate Tax and Annual Return). These documents will be used for verification of the recorded name and address.

Please provide a detailed description of the prescribed material produced and/or transferred into the Farm Unit in Table 4.1 and 4.2. (Must include all prescribed materials generated in and transferred into this Farm Unit).

1. Ensure all liquid systems, washwater, runoff from scrape alleys and paved yards or roofs are included in total volume of liquid prescribed material for this operation.
2. Ensure additional bedding is included in the total volume of solid prescribed material for this operation.
3. Ensure any runoff from solid storages is accounted for.
4. If livestock weight is lower than the value in Table 3.1 of the Nutrient Management Protocol incorporated into O.Reg. 267/03, as amended, a comprehensive detailed explanation must be attached.
5. For manure storage calculations
   1. New or expanding facilities – the number of farm animals must be equal to or greater than the number determined using the Housing Capacity Guidelines (provided in O.Reg. 267/03 Table 3.1) or documentation must be included indicating that the maximum housing capacity of the barn is less than the Housing Capacity Guidelines.
   2. Existing facilities – the manure storage calculations are based on actual usage of the facility.
   3. In all cases, a comprehensive, written explanation must be included if the declared housing usage is less than the maximum housing capacity of the barn.
6. Attach and clearly label detailed volume calculation of prescribed materials.

1. Ensure storage location and dimensions are included in the Farmstead Sketch.
2. Ensure liquid storage has 0.30 metres minimum freeboard, or 0.15 metres if storage has a non-slatted floor and is permanently covered.
3. If runoff management is required for one or more solid storage facilities, complete and attach the Runoff Management Checklist available at www.omafra.gov.on.ca.
4. If temporary storage is required, complete and attach Temporary Storage Checklist available at www.omafra.gov.on.ca.
5. For new and expanding prescribed material storage facilities, attach an Engineer's Commitment Certificate. The Engineer's Commitment Certificate is not required for a permanent, solid nutrient storage facility that has (O.Reg. 267/03, Section 62):
   1. a volume less than 600 cubic metres ;
   2. a surface area less than 600 square metres; and
   3. walls that do not have an exposed height of more than 1 metre.
6. Document the number of days of storage for each storage facility identified in Table 5.1.
7. Attach and clearly label the calculations of the days of storage for each storage system listed in Tables 4.1 and 5.1.
8. If the number of days of storage is less than 240, attach a detailed description showing how the prescribed materialswill be managed within the storage capacity of the operation.
9. The prescribed materials generated in the NM Strategy must be accounted for in the NM Plan.

Complete Table 6.1 on the following page, including the following information:

1. List the nutrient values (ammonia and ammonium nitrogen, total kjeldahl nitrogen, total phosphorous, total potassium and total solids) for the prescribed materials generated or received as part of this operation.
2. If databank nutrient content was used, the dry matter must correspond to the predicted dry matter range in Appendix 1 of the Nutrient Management Protocol.
3. If nutrient analysis is used, attach and clearly label the test results. If the test results vary from those provided in Appendix 1 of the Nutrient Management Protocol, attach an explanation.
4. For blended manures, attach detailed calculations of nutrient and dry matter content.
5. Attach other information, e.g. verification of use and influence of feed additives (if used), separator or digester used.

For all prescribed materials generated on the Farm Unit or other operation, a detailed, written description of their intended destination is required. Please fill out Table 7.1. Indicate the percentage of prescribed materials being land applied in the Farm Unit and transferred off the Farm Unit for each manure system for each of five (5) years.

1. For transfer of prescribed materials out of the Farm Unit, please provide the following in Table 8.1:
   1. Type of transfer (broker, NMA transfer, non-NMA transfer).
   2. Name of receiver.
   3. Location.
   4. Volume of prescribed materials being transferred.
   5. Tillable acres available for the prescribed material.
   6. Date of transfer.
   
   
2. Attach any necessary transfer or broker agreements as per O. Reg. 267/03. s.20, s.36, s. 37.
   To ensure your contract meets your commercial needs outside of the regulatory requirements, you should seek legal advice.
   
   Transfer Agreements must identify:
   
   1. the person who owns or controls the operation from which the materials are to be transferred;
   2. the person who owns or controls the operation to which the materials are to be transferred;
   3. the type of material to be transferred;
   4. the quantity of material to be transferred;
   5. the proposed date of transfer; and
   6. the operation identifiers of both the receiving and generating operations, if assigned.
   
   Broker agreements with generators must identify:
   
   1. the type of prescribed material to be received;
   2. the quantity of prescribed material to be received;
   3. the projected date of receipt;
   4. a description of the operation in which the prescribed material was generated;
   5. the operation identifier for the operation in which the material was generated or for the farm unit where the operation is carried out, if assigned.
   The broker shall retain the above records for four years after the date of receiving the prescribed materials.
   
   Broker agreements with receivers must identify:
   
   1. the type of prescribed material to be transferred;
   2. the quantity of prescribed material to be transferred;
   3. the proposed date of transfer;
   4. a description of the operation to which the prescribed material was transferred;
   5. the operation identifier for the operation or for the farm unit where the operation is carried out, if assigned.
   The broker shall retain the above records for four years after the date of transferring the prescribed materials.

The Contingency Plan must address all of the following in the event unforeseen circumstances occur:

1. The names and contact numbers for people who are authorized to make decisions for the operation in an emergency.
2. When more nutrients are generated and/or received than planned.
3. When storage is reaching capacity sooner than planned.
4. Unanticipated release of nutrients (e.g. spills, breaks in equipment or storage, etc.). List the phone numbers for MOE Spills Action Centre (1 800 268-6060), local municipalities, emergency assistance and the names and phone numbers of neighbours and heavy equipment operators to contact.
   Indicate how you will:
   • Avoid a spill
   • Stop a spill
   • Contain a spill
5. When weather conditions and/or equipment conditions and availability prevent planned storage or field application.

NOTE:
For animals not listed in the table above the number of animals per nutrient unit can be calculated by determining the number of animals that will produce the amount of nutrients that give the fertilizer replacement value of the lower of 43 kilograms of nitrogen or 55 kilograms of phosphate as nutrient. Consult with Ministry staff if assistance is required to complete this calculation.