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How safe is
HOW SAFE THE WATER?
Water is so common and so
necessary in our everyday life. The
old adage that “you never miss the
water ’till—” is only too true. But
there is another aspect of water
than having the well run dry.
How safe is the water that we
take for granted every day? The
question arises because of a rash of
problems encountered on farms,
that seem to point that way. The
problems often involve subtle
health problems that defy
diagnosis and spurn treatment.
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the water?
For example, breeding problems
that have no relationship to
nutrition or known diseases. This
seems to be the biggest headache
in high level herds, where nutrition
is watched carefully and herd
health is under constant
monitoring.
There are many reasons to be
concerned about the supply of
water that our cows drink. In the
first place, a dairy cow will drink
about fifty gallons of the stuff
every day. If that fifty gallons has
only a small, say 50 or 10 parts per
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million ot tox substance in it, the
cow ends up with a substantial
amount of toxic intake. It could
have a profound effet on the
delicately balanced metabolism of
a heavily stressed high producer.
Why should we be more con
cerned about water now than ever
before? Simply because there are
more things happening now in
agriculture than Papa ever
thought possible. In the first place,
dairy cows are becoming more and
more concentrated in small areas
of the land. When this happens, the
manure is also more concentrated,
and in some cases the land is
already saturated with more
nutrients than it can handle.
The only place to go, even for
nature, is to dump the excess into
the water table. One of the most
abundant of these excess nutrients
is Nitrogen, which finds it’s way
into water in the form of ammonia,
nitrates, and/or nitrites.
Nitrogen is a mixed blessing,
because it is often the most
necessary and one of the most
expensive plant nutrients we have
to buy. If it is so abundant on our
dairy farms, why do we need to
buy large amounts to grow com?
The difficulty is that it is so
elusive when we go to measure it
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assumptions about how much is
there, where and when we need it.
We also end up making assump
tions about how much is wasted,
and how much gets into the water
we drink. Even our best laboratory
tests for N will vary from day to
day, because of this characteristic
of volitility and instability.
Other things are happening to
the water supply. Where do the
tons of chemicals we dump on the
land end up? Some pesticides as
well as dairy chemicals do degrade
into harmless substance, and some
get locked up in the complex
chemistry of clay in the soil.
But some are bound to get into
the water that the cows, as well as
you and I, drink every day. And if
you drink a couple of glasses a day,
a cow drinks a thousand times as
much! More, in proportion to her
size, than a human does. Any
impurity or toxicicity is multiplied
that much in a cow.
I don’t mean to imply that all
water is unsafe to drink or to give
to the cows. Don’t rush out to the
vendor of “Water purifiers” and
buy an expensive gadget. At least,
not before checking carefully
every aspect of the farm water
supply. Have several laboratories
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check the water, if you suspect
trouble from that source. Not
because the vendor is dishonest,
heaven forbid, but because the
water samples differ, and
mistakes can be made. It’s better
to get a second opinion from a
disinterested source.
If herd health problems are
plagueing you, and can’t be at
tributed to disease or nutrition,
suspect the water supply. If
toxicicity is suspected, have at
least TWO labs test it. And get a
second opinion about what to do to
correct it.
The easiest and cheapest
correction may be to change some
of your habits of purchase and
disposal of chemicals so that they
stay clear of the surface and
subsurface water supply.
ARE;
LITIE