Several farm groups are asking the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to reconsider shortening the timeframe to apply manure.
Minnesota Milk director Lucas Sjostrum tells Brownfield new permitting rules would ban the roughly 1,200 farms in Minnesota that have more than 1,000 animal units from spreading manure in March. The rule would also prohibit manure applications from October 1st to the 14th without cover crops or nitrogen inhibitors.
“Which, at that time of the year, very well might not help.
