Ag Secretary Approves
First Nutrient Plan
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The program was moderated by
Karl Brown, executive secretary of
the State Conservation Commis
sion, of which Secretary Hayes is
chairman.
Ultimate authority for imple
menting the regulations and
approving management plans lies
with the SCC.
In his comments, Secretary
Hayes talked about the signficance
of die moment for the entire state.
He said it is noteworthy that the
nature of the state’s nutrient man
agement program is such that it
does not create a burden upon pro
fitable production agriculture, and
at the same time truly deals with
environmental concerns shared by
the agricultural and non
agricultural community.
Hayes said that without profit
able agriculture the residents of the
state can not afford to enjoy the
standards of living that they have;
and without being able to be profit
able, agricultural operations can
not afford to preserve farmland
and open spaces essential to the
environmental health necessary
for all.
In brief, he said the nutrient
management laws and implement
ing regulations created by Pen
nsylvania should serve as an exam-
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pie for the rest of the nation as a
way to solve an environmental
problem shared by all, without
creating more problems for just a
few.
He also noted that the regula
tions and the nutrient management
law bring greater emphasis to the
importance of the state conserva
tion districts and the SCC.
Hayes talked about the new atti
tudes in government which foster
problem solving through private
and public partnerships working
together for a common goal, as
well as multi-agency and multi
govemmeni cooperation.
“I don’t prefer an overabun
dance of government regulation,”
Hayes said, adding that he consid
ered that, left to himself and with
the freedom of time and resources
to do something other than attempt
to make money, most farmers
would operate in ways that are not
environmentally damaging.
However, he said, “We are
growing (in population) and get
ting closer (in proximity), so we
must work together. There must be
an opportunity for agriculture to
thrive.
“We can not be the way we want
to be in America without
agriculture.”
Others speaking included Lan-
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caster County Commissioner Paul
Thibault, who said that while he
knows that managing resources is
a “challenging enterprise,” he said
he feels that youth today observing
adults dealing with such problems
are skeptical that they can preserve
a healthy environment in the face
of shallow-minded greed and com
petitive consumption.
He said that Act 6 the Nutri
ent Management Act is a step
in that direction, as well as urban
growth boundaries, well-head pro
tection laws, and other measures
recently taken by state and com
munity leaders.
Jerry Hostetler, owner/operator
of Hostetler Management Com
pany, said he raises 13,000 sows in
Pennsylvania and his company has
recently received a national envir
onmental award conferred by the
Eastern Region of the National
Pork Producers Council. The
awared was for Hostetler’s nutri
ent management program.
Though approval of his nutrient
management plan is pending, it is
expected to be approved.
He praised the regulations, not
only because they are good for the
environment, he said, but because
they eliminate the patchwork of
local ordinances which began to be
created as local municipalities
became the batde grounds between
high-density livestock operations
and residents and creators of hous
ing developments.
He said the statewide consisten
cy of the law is good for business,
and the liability protection also
helps. He said the increased record
keeping also helps business own
ers because they are better
equipped to make decisions for
increased efficiency.
As a representative of the state’s
hog industry, Hostetter said that
Pennsylvania has been wise to take
this course because poor manage
ment leads to poor public percep
tions, and he said that the entire
swine industry has been given a
black eye from the wide-spread
reports of environmental damage
attributed to hog operations in
North Carolina.
Don Robinson, manager of the
Lancaster County Conservation
District, who also helped the
Nutrient Management Advisory
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Board through the regulation crea
tion process, said that conservation
districts around the state are ready
for their role in implementing the
regulations.
Fa- Lancaster County, he said
he estimates that there may be up
to 1,000 operations in need of
mandatory plans, out of the coun
ty’s estimated 4,500 farming
operations.
The SCC estimates there are
2,500 such farms statewide.
Logan Myers, representing the
Lititz Run Watershed Alliance (a
group of stakeholders attempting
to work together to improve the
quality of the entire Lititz Run
Watershed), announced that the
group has agreed to help farmers
within the watershed financially to
develop plans.
Under the state nutrient man
agement program, up to 75 percent
of the cost of developing plans
(estimated according to some sour
ces as possibly ranging from $4OO
and up depending on the extent of
work required) is to be cost-shared
for mandatory plans.
The Lititz Run Alliance recently
approved providing the remaining
25 percent for the mandatory oper
ations in its watershed in order to
develop plans.
In addition to the plan signing,
Leon Ressler with the Penn State
Extension, demonstrated manure
application rates so that members
of the press could understand and
pass it on.
The farm plan calls for the appli
cation rate of 25 tons of steer man
ure per acre on some of the crop
land. Ressler showed how calibra
tion was figured with weights of
manure, and amount discharged
from a spreader over a specific dis
tance, traveling at a specific speed.
Then manure was actually
applied at the rate of 25 tons per
acre, providing an accurate visual
representation, rather than merely
allowing public imagination to
conceive on its own what 25 tons
per acre would represent.
The reason for the press confer
ence and the nutrient management
laws is population growth, culture
wide changes in traditional prac
tices, and the resulting environ
mental effects.
The continual decline of the
Chesapeake Bay has been a focal
point for the main issue —an
assault on the environment from a
booming residential growth and its
land-moving activities, as well as
changing economic pressures on
farms.
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For farms, land values increased
as post-industrial entreprenuers
turned heavily to high-profit resi
dential development and began
competing for available farmland.
High interest rates during the
late 1970 s and early 1980 s curtail
ed much of that, but recovery to
lower rates through the 1980 s until
present not only brought a reprise
to the housing industry, but invest
ment and capitalist strategists
created new mega-sized discount
retail stores, household and food
outlets, and strip malls in close
proximity to the new residential
developments, competing further
for farmland.
At the same time, investors were
reluctant to pursue development
on previously used lands because
of the risks of having courts find
them financially liable for the
complete removal of potential tox
ins and carcinogens, even if the
current owner had no knowledge
and responsibility for it being
there.
(Brownfields legislation now
allows land to be used for its his
torical uses, as long as contamin
ants are contained and not
exccesive.)
Additional roadways and earth
moving activities resulted in the
need for government to prescribe
new ways to deal with storm water
problems and the associated
sedimentation and nutrient loads,
such as mandatory stormwater
retention dams swales, and
waterways.
Concern grew also about the
increase in speed of decline of the
Chesapeake Bay. and former Gov.
Robert Casey signed an agreement
along with other governors of
states affecting the Chesapeake to
reduce Pennsylvania’s nutrient
contribution to the Bay by 40 per
cent by 2000.
Though nutrient management
law has been considered for more
almost two decades, the Chesa
peake Bay agreement and local
nusiance ordinances hurting farm
ing operations put more pressure
on politicians and stale leadership
to create the nutrient management
law.
There are three nutrients of con
cern to the Chesapeake Bay
nitrogen, phosphorus, and potas
sium. The state nutrient manage
ment law deals with nitrogen, the
nutrient of most concern.
Other states, such as Maryland,
have nutrient management prog
rams that encourage farmers to
develop and implement nutrient
management plans.
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