D24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 15,1984
Chester holds manure management tour
WEST CHESTER - Forty
dairymen, equipment dealers and
agency personnel attended a
recent manure management tour
hosted by Chester County Ex
tension and Soil Conservation
District. The tour included visits to
four farms, equipment demon
strations and comments by Dan
Meyer, waste management and
facilities specialist from Penn
State.
The tour began by visiting a
gravity in, gravity out manure
facility at Mason Brothers farm
south of Nottingham. Bob Mason,
one of the owners, said he liked the
system because very little
equipment is needed for loading or
unloading the system. Manure is
pushed into a collection pit at the
dariy bam and travels through a
12-inch pipe to the bottom of the
pit. Mason commented that the
system works well, but frozen
manure cannot be pushed into the
collection pit since it won’t flow
through the pipe. Dan Meyer
stated that the pipe from the bam
to the storage structure should be
on a 10% slope for a gravity system
to work smoothly. Pumping and
agitation equipment provided bj
Butler and US AgriSystems
demonstrated the break-up of the
crust and agitation of the manure
in the facility.
The second stop on the tour was a
picket-dam structure on the farm
of Glenn Freese. Here, the par
ticipants on the tour saw the
operation of a picket-dam storage
and a ram pump, which moves the
stable manure to the bottom of the
storage. Freese explained special
precautions necessary for cold
weather when using a picket-dam
storage. Meyers pointed out that
the run-off from a picket-dam
system usually contains less than
10% of the nutrients in the manure.
Marshall Haws, of the Chester
County Soil Conservation District,
mentioned that run-off from a
storage such as Freeses’ should be
utilized by crops in a diversion
terrace. Indeed, Freese has his
run-off directed to a large corn
field.
Freese also mentioned that when
installing a pipe from a ram pump
to a storage area, turns should be
avoided or made at angles of 45
degrees or less. Also, Curves
should be reinforced by concrete to
prevent the joints of the pipe to be
pushed apart by the tremendous
pressure in the pipe.
A slurrystore system at Paul
King’s farm near Cochranville was
the tour’s third stop. King told the
group that he chose the slurrystore
because it was easier to maintain,
no weeds to mow, or banks to
maintain. The slurrystore occupies
less area than an in-ground
storage, an advantage according
to Kmg. He admitted however, that
his system was the most cost of the
facilities visited the day.
Harry Troop’s covered above
ground manure storage structure
was the last stop of the tour. Troop
commented that he built this above
ground structure because of the
high water table in his area. The
manure is pumped underground
from the barn to the bottom of the
storage structure. Dan Meyer
stated that this is the preferable
way to transfer manure from bam
to storage, commenting that to
push the manure into the structure
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from the top would break the crust
every day leading to greater
nitrogen losses and an increased
fly problem. The group also saw a
conventional spreader and a
tanker with injection chisels on
display at Troop’s.
Prior to the tour, Dave Swartz
and Keith Zanzmger, Chester
County Extension Agents, sampled
manure, from each of the facilities
visited on the tour, to be tested for
Dan Meyer, Penn State ag engineering specialist, discusses
manure management tour with Jenny Russel, Chester
County Soil Conservation District director.
nutrient content. Dan Meyer stated
that temperature and wind are the
greatest factors in determining
how fast the nitrogen will
volatolize from surface spread
manure. Meyer said, “High
temperature and high wind will
work together to drive off nitrogen
quickly. Manure should be in
corporated within 24 hours to
retain most of the nitrogen. After 4
days, most of the nitrogen is lost. ”
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