Charles Stephen Gingerich of Zurich has won his appeal and will not have to register his farm under the Farm Business Registration Act.
It also means he need not pay the annual registration fee.
He previously paid the fee and directed his funds to the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario.
But he has come to believe he ought not register his farm business, which is crops and contract hog production, based on personal convictions.
He is a member of the Independent Holiness Church, but did not base his objections on its doctrines or support from its bishop.
The bishop did write that the church allows members to hold personal convictions.
