Poultry manure
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from any County Extension Ser
vice office.
Because of the uneven
distribution of poultry across the
state, farmers often have
problems with meeting these
guidelines and need alternative
disposal options. One possibility is
to sell the poultry manure to
farmers who have cropland but not
animals. Poultry manure can be
an excellent fertilizer because of
its high analysis. Sods where too
much poultry manure is applied
over a number of years may have
excessive potassium levels and
result in other nutrient un
balances.
Manure market
The market for poultry manure
as a fertilizer has strengthened
since 1972 when less than 10 per
cent of all poultry manure or litter
was sold. Now we estimate that 20
percent of ail poultry manure is
sold from Pennsylvania farms for
prices ranging from three to 12
dollars per ton for wet or chunky
dry manure, to as high as 25
dollars per ton for dry
manure(3o% moisture) in bulk at
the farm. Bagged manure m farm
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and garden centers commonly sell
for prices ranging from three to
seven cents per pound depending
on bag size. This is equivalent to 60
to 140 dollars per ton. One cannot
accurately guess the plant nutrient
content of manure. Thus it should
be analyzed to determine its value.
Manure analysis mailing kits are
avadable from the County Ex
tension Service offices.
The reason for most of the
citations for pollution issued by
authorities to farmers in Penn
sylvania has been because of
objectionable odor complaints
filed by neighbors. Most of these
have been because of wet manure
or Utter stored more than 28 days
without being dried. Other
citations include, but are not
limited to, water poUution or dust
and feathers as a nuisance. A few
farmers have paid fines for
polluting water on or nearby the
farm or area where manure is
spread. ■
Using large amounts of manure
and high level apphcations of
commercial fertilizer together on
the same acre is not recom
mended.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - One of the
biggest returns from a recent
meeting between the presidents of
the northeast’s three major dairy
cooperatives and upstate members
of the New York State
Congressional delegation in
Washington, was the display of
unity by the cooperatives, ac
cording to NEDCO President
Edward McNamara.
McNamara, along with Stanley
Korona, president of Eastern Milk
Producers Cooperative and Clyde
Rutherford, president of Dairylea,
set up a meeting with the
legislators on May 12 at the
Rayburn House Office Building to
discuss dairy legislation now m the
House Agriculture Committee.
The meeting was arranged
through the office of Matthew F.
McHugh, of Ithaca. Eight of the
legislators were represented at the
meeting with the dairy co-op
presidents.
“We don’t like what we’re
hearing out of Washington these
days,” said McNamara. “We find
our farmers agam facing a cut of
50 cents per hundredweight in their
milkchecks and now we see
compromise legislation coming
from the House Agriculture
Committee that cuts back the
industry’s dairy incentive plan to
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one year from two and the
diversion payment to producers
fromflO.OO t 057.00. This makes the
plan inoperable as far as I’m
concerned,” he said. “Nobody’s
going to sell cows for that kind of
incentive. We totally reject this
piece of compromise legislation.
It’s just a gesture,” he added.
"Another thing,” quoted Mc-
Namara, "is that we have a
powerful and persuasive Ad
ministration whose eyes can only
see solutions through support cuts.
It is disheartening to watch the
Congress compromise entirely to
the Administration's closed way of
thinking,” said the co-op leader.
McNamara showed by example
that if a producer takes a $2.00
drop m support on a farm selling
one. million pounds of milk last
year, and he multiplies that by the
$2.00 drop, he’ll find that it would
have lowered his net income by
$20,000. “Extend that over the
three years it is expected to take to
solve the overproduction problems
and you could expect to lower this
farmer’s net income by $60,000,”
he said. “What producer can stand
that?”
Straight cuts m income aren’t
the answer, he explained. You
need incentive legislation that will
reduce production, reduce
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government costs and maintain
dairy farmer income at the highest
level possible.
“The only plan presented to date
that comes even close to meeting
these goals and the expenditure
limitation of $7lO million would be
a producer incentive program,”
said McNamara.
He emphasized that cutting
producer income by 50 cents per
hundredweight or supports by $2.00
will not come close to meeting the
expenditure limitation.
McNamara, Korona and
Rutherford agreed that it will take
more than the unity of the three
major dairy cooperatives m the
northeast to convince Congress of
the dairy togetherness they are
looking for.
"We may never reach
unanimous decisions nationwide,
even in the future, "but I believe it
behooves the dairy industry to
come as close as possible if we are
to ever have a serious impact at
the federal level,” said Mc-
Namara.
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