Posted by HeyPigFarmer on March 30, 2009 at 11:09:39 from (99.154.26.193):
In Reply to: dairy farming posted by pjbrown vt on March 30, 2009 at 09:30:42:
If you have under 1000 animal units and are not designated as a Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) you do not need to be inspected. If you are a CAFO you are inspected at minimum annually. You have to have your fields tested for phosphorous levels and have to get a nutrient management plan developed to state how much manure can be applied to which fields and when. You have to have proof of these records and manure application rates. You have to calibrate your manure spreaders every year. You have to get a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit from the EPA. How do small dairies get rid of dead animals, bury them, if you are a CAFO this is a fine up to 10K, they must be composted, incinerated or disposed of following the GAAMPs. Rules Regs and Inspections. Now if you are not a CAFO you can put as much of your manure on any field, not follow setbacks, discharge water, no inspections, no collection system for runoff from a feed bunker, no cleaning up of spoiled feed. Small dairies have manure releases too, you just don’t hear about them because they aren’t usually as large and they don’t carry the big fine and the watchful eye of the Sierra Club and others.
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