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Bennville Farm & Bennville Equestrian
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Bennville Farm is
located at the western edge of Haldimand County,
a 30 minute drive south from Brantford or
Hamilton with the connection to mayor Highways
403 and 401.
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Originally a dairy
farm, we purchased this farm in 1981,
immigrating directly from Germany. Both our
families have been farming in Germany for more
than 3 generations, but small acreage, high land
prices and limited availability of farm land and
no chance of expansion were the main reasons for
us to come to Canada. Tenant farmers back in the
“Rheinland” close to Cologne, where we had a
well established dairy herd, we decided to take
the big step of immigrating to Canada to fulfill
our dream of owning our “own farm”.
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Many things have
changed in those 30 years. We raised five
children, all grown up now, 4 married with
families of their own. The farming operation has
changed as well. Starting out as a dairy farm,
we sold the herd in 1997 only to expand on the
land base and today our operation consists of 3
sections, the cash crop operation ( shared with
our daughter and son in law Niki and Ian), the
Equestrian operation (run by Ferdi and his team)
and a small herd of 45 purebred Limousin cows, (managed by Anita with the help of daughters Anna
and Greta).
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We take great pride
in conservation farming ,with leaving as little
footprint as possible on our surroundings.
No-till in combination with strict crop
rotation, permanent pastures for sensible areas,
fenced water ways, buffer strips, windbreaks and
the protection of wetland areas had great impact
on our surroundings. Where we had no wildlife on
our farm in the beginning , today we are
observing a wide variety of species on our farm
as well as high yields produced on a healthy,
living soil.
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Please feel free to
check out our website for more info. Be it
horses, cattle or meat orders, please click on
the appropriate column and get in contact with
us for more information.
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We would like to
thank you for your interest and are looking
forward to hear from you!
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You can now find Bennville Equestrian on
Facebook
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http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Bennville-Equestrian/101748159865311
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