Nutrient Management
Planning Costs
Leon Ressler
Extension Agent
Agriculture/Environment
The Pennsylvania Nutrient
Management Law created a pro
gram to certify commercial nutri
ent management planners. Ap
proximately two hundred people
have been provisionally certified
to write plans in Pennsylvania.
The provisional tag will be re
moved from the certification
status after three plans have been
written and approved. Concen
trated animal operations (those
with two animal units per acre)
which were in existence when the
law became effective (October 1,
1997) have until September 30,
1998 to submit a nutrient man
agement plan for their operations.
The cost for most nutrient
management plans will fall in the
$3OO-$BOO range. What factors
will effect the cost of a commer
cially written plan? Simply put,
the cost of the plan is really influ
enced by the amount of time the
planner has invested. So the more
information you can provide the
planner the less the plan will cost
you. For example if you can pro
vide a good map from an aerial
photograph, up to date, soil tests
and manure tests this will help
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keep the cost down. However if
you provide your own soil and
manure tests the testing costs will
not be eligible for cost share.
Other factors which will impact
the cost include the number of
acres in the plan, the number of
individual fields, the number of
different crops and the number of
manure types on the operation.
The more complex the operation
the more the plan will cost. Ex
porting of manure is fairly simple
from a planning standpoint so if a
large portion of manure is ex
ported this will tend to reduce the
cost of the plan.
Some planners price the project
on an acre basis and most plans
will fall into the $3-$6 per acre
range. Usually this price includes
soil tests as well as taking the
samples (one test for each 10-20
acres). Generally one manure test
is included in this price. If the
commercial planner includes these
testing expenses in the plan cost,
these costs will be eligible for
cost share. Some planners will
quote a price based on information
about your operation learned dur
ing a short phone conversation.
Some planners will bill on an
hourly rate basis.
Cost sharing is available for
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nutrient management planning.
Cost share must be approved prior
to the beginning of the planning
process so if you are interested in
cost share funds contact your local
conservation district to obtain ap
proval.
For commercially developed
plans cost share for a farm of 0-50
acres is 75% of actual costs not to
exceed $250. For 50 or more acres
the cost share is 75% of costs not
to exceed $4 per acre or $BOO per
operation. Cost share funds are
available for farmer developed
plans as well. For a plan devel
oped by an individual for his own
operation the cost share is $2OO
for an operation of up to 50 acres.
For an operation over 50 acres the
cost share is $3 per acre not to ex
ceed $BOO per operation. Only
concentrated animal operations
will be eligible for cost share
funds in the first year of the pro
gram. After October 1, 1998 vol
untary nutrient management plans
will be able to receive cost share
funds as well.
If you decide you would like to
become certified to write your
own plan there is still opportunity
to attend some training sessions
and take the exam by mid sum
mer. This will still allow you to
have your plan completed by the
September 30 deadline for submit
ting plans for concentrated animal
operations. An optional training
session on soil fertility and ma
nure management will be held in
Lancaster on June 23. The required
precertification training will be
held in Lancaster on June 30. The
certification exam will be offered
in Lancaster on July Bth. All three
of these events will be held at The
Farm and Home Center located at
1383 Arcadia Road Lancaster. To
register please contact Leon
Ressler at (717)-394-6851.
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Hosts Open House
LOWELLVILLE (Lawrence
Co.) - Yeo Farms hosted its 12 th
annual open house for young
people at the farm on Saturday,
April 18.
Twenty-nine youth from
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
Maryland participated in the
livestock judging contest that
morning. Twenty-eight lambs
were then sold in the Yeo Farms
Club Lamb Sale that afternoon.
The number of head sold at
Yeo Farms Club Lamb was up
this year, and top prices were
high this year than last. Four
ewe lambs sold with prices up to
$l3O and 24 wether lambs sold
with prices up to $275.
Susan Cunningham, of
Hanoverton, Ohio, was the
buyer for the two highest priced
lambs. Other top-price lambs
went to Bryian North of
Waterford and John Kennedy of
Mayport.
The sale featured lambs out
of Yeo Farms’ Cardinal Creek
ram, as well as a ram bred by
Yeo Farms that had been a part
of Yeo Farms successful show
flock two years ago.
Winning first place in the
individual judging competition
in the junior division was Kevin
Farrell, of Charlotte Hall, Md.,
and in the senior division
Melissa Ferguson, of Geneva,
Ohio. Out of a perfect score of
400, Farrell scored 365 and
Ferguson scored 370.
In the team competition, the
blue ribbon of the junior division
was captured by a team consist
ing of Sara Braun of
Mechanicsville, Md., Kevin
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 2, 1908-03
Farrell, and Becky Rice-
Overstreet of Charlotte Hall,
Md. The second-place team con
sisted of Michael Farrell, also of
Charlotte Hall, Md., Josh and
Katie Mast of Mechanicsville,
Md., and Katie Roberts of
Bryantown, Md.
In the senior division first
place was won by a team con
sisting of Christy Cunningham
of Hanoverton, Ohio, Melissa
Ferguson, Bryan Hirschlach of
Jewett, Ohio, and Jessica Leben
of Geneva, Ohio. In second place
was the team made up of
Jocelyn and Philip DeSenze and
Chary Greier - all from Salem,
Ohio.
In all, there were three junior
teams made up of young people
between the ages of 8 and 12,
together with five senior teams
for contestants between the ages
of 13 and 18.
Each participant was asked
to evaluate eight classes of live
stock containing four animals
each. There were four classes of
beef cattle and four of Suffolk
sheep.
The classes were prejudged
by John Allen 111. This was the
second year that Allen of
Armstrong Farms in
Saxonsburg was the guest judge.
He has shown cattle all over the
country, was a star member of
the Penn State Judging Team
while in college, and is a past
president of the American
Junior Shorthorn Association.
The "Wild and Wooly" 4-H
Club of Ashtabula County, Ohio
provided the snack bar for the
event.
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