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Overall, the projects offered
through the Conservation District
should not be seen as intrusions
into otherwise healthy homing
practices. That simply is not the
truth.
The farms that have gotten pro
ject help through the Conservation
District had serious problems
problems that created significant
health concerns and put them at
risk of prosecution for pollution.
The people involved have farm
ing backgrounds or are sensitive to
farm needs and desires for effi
ciency. Overall, Wolfgang said the
conservation practices can be seen
as community health projects.
“Looking on the broad spec
trum, the practices ultimately help
the Chesapeake Bay. but they also
improve farm efficiency and local
water quality, even as localized as
well-head protection,” Wolfgang
said.
Wolfgang grew up on a grain
fanning operation in Schuylkill
County where his father had
implemented a conservation plan,
installing contour strips, grass
waterways and diversions.
Relatively new to Lebanon
County, starting there in the fall of
1994, Wolfgang said he grew up
by a previous owner by excavating soil next the foundation
of this cow bam. The barn foundation needs to be shored
up, while a cemented manure storage Is planned to correct
the site.
An odorless, colorless,
invisible-and costly
forage thief!
You can't see it-and you can't stop it. Storage losses in forage can
steal your valuable crop-how much is lost depends upon how you
store your feed.
• Tower Silos have Up to 8% loss*
• Bunkers have Up to 45% loss**
If the average difference in feed lost between tower silos and
bunkers is 30%, then storage of 1000 tons will mean 300 tons MORE
lost in a bunker. If silage is valued at $3O per ton, the additional
losses from bunker storage would be $9OOO per year.
For information on losses for all types of crop storage methods,
contact the Crop Storage Institute for your free copy of “Methods of
Crop Storage” and “Know the Facts."
Crop Storage institute
P.O. Box 560
Lafayette, Indiana 47902*0560
Phone: 317-742-0083 Fax: 317-742-6135 E-mail: drewfree@aoLcom
* "Dry Matter Retention in Silage Storage Units," Marshfield Exp., Station, 1983
** 'Keeping Aid Out of Bunkers is the Key," Hoards Dairyman, March 25,1992
Lebanon Conservation District Tours Farms
seeing the benefits of installing
conservation practices.
The Lentz farm was the first
farm visited. The Bay contract
work done there included two
cemented manure holding facili
ties on the original home farm
one at the original site on the bank
of the Swatara Creek, the other ata
newer dairy facility built to keep
the milking siring.
The older farm site had a man
ure storage facility installed and is
being used to keep the replacement
heifers. Lentz said that his father
had moved to the farm in 1959
when Gary was 10 months old.
Growing up. the manure from the
barn lot and the milkhouse used to
go into the stream. It no longer
does.
He also had some stream fenc
ing installed and did some spring
develonment and protection work
on a spring that is adjacent to the
original farmstead foundation (that
now is the site of children play
structures).
Lentz told the group that be was
very pleased with the structures
built.
He said he first got involved
with the Conservation District in
1985 and in 1988 began building.
Further west and north of the
Lentz farm, the tour visited the
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Williamses Cum. Hie operation
has undergone significant changes
since the Williams have had the
farm.
The land under Cum includes a
large interior bend of the Swanta
Creek near Jonestown. Hie low
lying land had been under crop cul
tivation, with a slim wooded buffer
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