Lynn Leavitt of Leavitt’s Black Angus Beef is this year’s winner of the Environmental Stewardship Award from Beef Farmers of Ontario.
He developed a compactor for used plastics and now the U-Pac AgriServices recycles farm plastics across the province.
The farm is in Prince Edward County and has 200 acres, 175 of them for pasturing the herd. The family farm buys hay from another 100 acres.
U-Pac has gathered about 225,000 pounds of scrap bale wrap and has taken it to a recycle plant.
The compactors, as well as blueprints for the compactors are available to farmers across the province.Leavitt’s Black Angus Beef was also awarded the Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation for their work on farm plastic recycling and re-purposing, as well as the 2022 Don Hill Legacy Award, recognizing creative and innovative solutions to environmental challenges faced on farm.
