A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 20, 1998
Adams Conservation District
Schedules Field Day
JINNY WILT
Adams Co. Correspondent
GETTYSBURG (Adams Co.)
Does making your farming
operation more profitable intrigue
you?
Information on doing just that
will be on the agenda of Farm
Field Day sponsored by the
Adams County Conservation Dis
trict from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. June
30.
David Kann Jr., the district’s
Chesapeake Bay nutrient manage
ment technician, asks those want
ing to join the tour to call (717)
334-0636 to reserve a spot for the
day, which kicks off with coffee
and donuts at the United Brethren
Church in Heidlersburg, next to
the fire hall.
The group will first travel to the
Lobaugh Farms, where different
types of manure storage will be
discussed.
“It’s not too often that you have
farm operations that has three
types of manure storages in close
proximity so it makes it very ac
cessible for the bus to come in...
there are three distinct styles wi’ 1 !
the slurry above ground, a slury
with a ramp inground, and a stack
storage,” Kann said.
The most recent storage facility
built on a Lobaugh farm is an
80-foot circular concrete tank in
the ground with a ramp and was
constructed under the Chesapeake
Bay Program, according to Kann.
‘Those storages are very new
and in fact the design for those
was approved in 1996. The first
storage like that went in in Frank
lin County.
“So with farmers using a lot
more bedding or different styles of
bedding with lime and sand, their
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fear was that you couldn’t get
down and get that material out of
the bottom. Now the engineers
have designed these storages with
the ramps so you can pump out as
much as you can, but if you get a
lot of heavy stuff settling in the
bottom you can access with the
ramp. You can go down there with
the front end loader and clean the
heavier stuff out,” Kann ex
plained.
Depending on the weather, the
manure will be able to be hauled
as a solid or a liquid.
A second manure storage is an
above-ground tank that has been
in operation since 1980, according
to Dean Lobaugh.
And the third is the stackable
facility on the farm operated by
Vince Lobaugh. Its contract with
the Chesapeake Bay Program will
end this fall.
On this storage pit, Kann said,
“Whatever rain falls on it bleeds
out through & pipe system and the
material going through the pipe
goes on vegetation. The grass can
actually suck up the nutrients that
are in that dirty water. We don’t
like these types of storages for
bam lots that have a lot of exposed
area and get a lot of rain water be
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cause it’s just too much water to
go through a pipe work and send
into a filter such as a grassy area,”
Kann said.
Speakers at the Lobaugh farms
will talk about options for manure
storage and odor control.
Kann will also provide informa
tion on manure spreader calibra
tion.
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on nitrogen trials.
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