The Bayers and Roccas are concluding a years-long legal battle over farming practices. The board dismissed the Roccas' claims, calling their conduct "frivolous and vexatious." After various appeals and bias claims, a final decision on the merits hearing costs is expected by June 2026.
GREEN BAY—For several years now Green Bay farmers Roy and Doris Bayer have been locked in a series of legal battles with their former neighbours Jacqueline and Claudio Rocca—the latest of which involves the Roccas disputing the awarding of costs to the Bayers.
Although the neighbours were originally on friendly terms, with the Bayers farming the Rocca property, a dispute over the timing of the hay harvest (and its impact on nesting bobolinks) escalated to the point the Roccas entered a challenge of the Bayer’s farming practices under the Farming and Food Production Protection Act, 1998.
Ms. Rocca alleged in that challenge that disturbances of odour and flies at her cottage property on Manitoulin Island arose from the agricultural operations of Mr. Bayer. Mr. Rocca and Ms. Bayer were later added to the case.
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