C4-Lancastar Fanning, Saturday,. June 3, 1995 £ PROFESSIONAL DAIRY MANAGERS OF PENNSYLVANIA MEET TO STUDY NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT Peter Wright Animal Waste Specialist Cornell Cooperative Extension The Professional Dairy Mana gers of Pennsylvania continue to meet and grow in focus and pur pose. Cliff Hawbaker, a dairy far mer from Chambersburg, leads the group. The last quarterly meeting was hosted by Dan Mains at Mains Acres dairy near Newville. Attending dairy managers were treated to a walking tour and dis cussion of farm management, manure management, and milk WRAP in Freshne Nutrition. i-Man Open & Easy. /eve, Wrap, /ransport Bal bout Dismoi For literature and the name of your local dealer, contact: J.S. Woodhouse Co.. Inc. 572 Industrial Dr., Lewisberry, PA 17339 • Tel: (717) 938-5100 TUNE-UP YOUR GAS GRILL NOW! Replace your worn out grill parts with quality exact fit replacement parts. Burners, grids, grates, valves, ignitors, hoses, regulators, lava rock, and much more. We have the parts to make your grill look and perform like new. For Mi AMOS L. STOLTZFUS hauling. After the tour and discus sion, the group retired to the home farm office for lunch and a presen tation by Peter Wright from Cor nell University, a position partially funded by the Northeast Dairy Managers. Peter Wright summarized the day’s discussion and his presenta tion by e-mail: Manure Management Professional Dairy Managers of Pennsylvania, Mains Acres, New ville, met April 27, 1995. One of the biggest challenges facing dairy fanners today is hand ling their manure in a low cost, efficient and environmentally friendly way. Often manure sys tems consist of tradeoff between these goals. There are many manure hand ling options for the farmer to rikk NOISE miKMiV lor Brands of >st Mi 504 HENSEL RD. KINZER, PA 17535 choose from and often each farm needs the equipment and manage ment skills to handle manure in a variety of ways. A small group of dairy mana gers explained how they each dealt with the manure on their farms. They shared their successes and their problems in dealing with this important issue. Peter Wright, manure manage ment specialist from Cornell, gave his perspective of the problem and the opportunities. The lowest cost system is often daily spreading, especially for smaller farms. The disadvantages of daily, spreading include compaction of the cropland while spreading in saturated conditions, unavailabili ty of land during the growing sea son, and nutrient losses when man ure is spread over the winter. Larger farms will find that stor ing the manure, in an earthen stor age, and then irrigating it is the lowest cost method. The disadvan tages of this method include odors from the stored manure are released as the manure pit is agi tated and as the manure is sprayed into the air, pumping to non conti guous land is difficult, and higher management is needed. 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These components need to be developed to meet the needs of the dairy industry. The next meeting of the PDM of Pa. will be July 27 in Carlisle to study milk hauling and contract ing. Dairy managers that have questions regarding the PDM of Pa. should contact Cliff Hawbaker (717) 263-9577, Franklin County; Greta Recti (610) 869-8116, Ches ter County; or Janice Burkholder, Franklin County, (717) 263-9690. If a local group wishes to start another regional dairy managers group in the state, they should con tact'Bill Heald at (814) 863-3918 or CWH3@PSU.EDU.
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