J. Schwiebert
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When I was a kid we hauled manure in the winter and it was froze over. Now it is against the law here .What policy (la0 does the state have in your area?
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Timmycornpicker
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- Almost Pennsylvania, New Jersey.
Same here in New Jersey.
coonie minnie
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As of now, we are still legal, but do need to have a winter spreading plan... pick fields that minimize runoff, etc.
tomstractorsandtoys
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When we farmed in MD we had to go to school to be taught how to haul manure. Class was taught by someone that had never hauled any. We all laughed when they talked about using cake pans to calibrate a liquid manure spreader. Here in WI us smaller farmers are mostly left alone unless someone does something really stupid. Tom
caterpillar guy
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As far as I know we still just spread it. I suppose some do gooder abundant will want to change it.
Tony in SD
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Out of cows, but still have chickens & turkeys. Goes to the 12,000 sq ft garden. No problem as far as I know.
Crazy Horse
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George ..... lately, I can't paint/write my name in the snow in script because there seems to be spaces and pauses between the letters ..... ha!
Copperhead don't play
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Crazy Horse I can write the first letter every 15 minutes but that is all I can do at a time.
In NC a dairy close by is milking around a thousand cows daily if they spread liquid manure on a field that will not be planted with anything over the winter they have to plant a cover crop they have close to a hundred acres close to me they planted in turnips with a mixture of seeds.
bwillett
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- West Central Ohio
Ohio has some regulations pertaining to the Lake Erie Watershed, but not sure about the rest of the state...
johnofnewhaven
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I've been trying to find out about NY since this thread was posted. The big operations all have pits and lagoons as do quite a few smaller operations. I do see box spreaders and side slingers run this time of year so I don't no if there is no law or if it is a low priority as long as it does not run off into a waterway. The talk has been for quite a while that applied manure needs immediate incorporation as far as DEC is concerned but it does not look like that it made it into law. Stay tuned.
john in la
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The egg farm north of me has 1000 +/- acres just to spread the manure.
Row crop farmers fight over broiler house manure.
So much so the parish was selling sewer sludge and stopped.
Dairy farmers only get in trouble when the manure leaves their property in rain runoff and gets into the rivers.
Ag Research station has even been working on ways to raise more catfish per acre.
This requires removing the waste and using it to grow crops.
Louisiana may not be the number one state in manure use; but we are the number one state in increased acres using manure over a 10 year period.
Row crop farmers fight over broiler house manure.
So much so the parish was selling sewer sludge and stopped.
Dairy farmers only get in trouble when the manure leaves their property in rain runoff and gets into the rivers.
Ag Research station has even been working on ways to raise more catfish per acre.
This requires removing the waste and using it to grow crops.
Louisiana may not be the number one state in manure use; but we are the number one state in increased acres using manure over a 10 year period.
Tim in New York
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Must still be legal in NY. Dairy down the road (state highway) spread some right by the road this week. And we ran into a guy hauling a spreader when we were snowmobiling.
Tim
Tim
fixerupper
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Here in Iowa I am not sure what the law is anymore. For awhile all liquid manure had to be injected. If the ground froze up too soon in the fall or of a confinement had a major water leak that filled the pit in the middle of the winter a special exemption could be made to allow the liquid to be spread on top. Solid manure can be spread on the snow as long as the farming operation has fewer than a certain amount of animals. I haven't heard of any changes but there might be some changes. Years ago a local farmer here in Iowa was howling about a proposed Minnesota law that would prohibit manure spreading on the snow. He was just positive Iowa would follow suit. This farmer I am talking about passed away 30 years ago so it was some time before then when I heard him complaining.
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