A farm organization says Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources underestimated how dairy farmers would be affected in their proposed manure management regulations.
Jeff Lyon with FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative says proposed changes to rule NR151 including a prohibition on spreading manure more than once on certain soil types after September 1st would have a huge economic and operational impact. “Part of that is you can put only 25% (of liquid manure) on, so what it would mean is that if you’re not going to add any manure storage, you know, you’re going to have to find different places to put the manure out because you’re not going to be able to put it on at the rates that you normally would.”
And, he says the need for more manure storage will affect farmers differently.
