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LEBANON (Lebanon Co.)
A two-day educational event fea
turing pesticide application, a
dairy nutritional program, and a
corn silage harvest equipment
demonstration is scheduled for
Nov. 16-17 in the Lebanon
County area.
The event will begin at
Zimmerman Farm Services,
School Road, Bethel, on
Tuesday, Nov. 16, from 10:30
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a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Brubaker’s
Agronomics will present pro
grams for pesticide credits.
Miller Pro will have equipment
to test nozzles (bring them
along).
On Wednesday, Nov. 17,
activities will begin at 10 a.m. at
Tom and Shirley KralTs farm,
two miles west of
Schaefferstown on Rt. 419,
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tion will be held from 10 to noon.
The following equipment will be
demonstrated in harvesting an
8-acre corn silage field:
•John Deere forage har
vester
• Class 840 forage harvester
• Gehl C 81275 harvester
with crop processor
•New Holland FX2S har
vester with roller mill
• Miller Pro forage wagon
• Gehl 980 forage wagon
• Miller Pro blower
• 2 Ford/New Holland trac
tors, Genesis 8670 and 7740.
After lunch, the dairy nutri
tion program will be held from
12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m, Tim
Lehman, Agway nutritionist,
will talk about maximizing but
terfat, rumen health, and milk
production. Carl and Dan
Brandt, who have the highest
butterfat herd in Lebanon
County, will also be sharing.
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" Janet Oertly, USD A NRCS state
conservationist (top agency rep
resentative in Pennsylvania),
headquartered in Harrisburg, said
the proposal is not for new
regulations.
“The strategy does not contain
new regulations, and the strategy
itself is not a rule,” she stated in a
news release.
“The strategy simply recognizes
and provides for how the voluntary
and regulatory aspects of our
Farmers and Miller Pro is host
ing the even held at Zimmerman
Farm Service. Cedar Crest
Young Farmers is hosting the
event at the Krall Farm. All
local farmers are invited to
attend.
Meeting
respective agencies were set up to
operate."
The strategy is an outline of how
the two organizations arc to coor
dinate efforts to work cooperative
ly with their existing authorities to
fulfill goals within the Clinton
Administration’s Clean Water
Action Plan.
According to a news release,
“The strategy establishes a nation
al expectation that all animal feed
ing operations develop and imple
ment comprehensive nutrient man
agement plans by the year 2008.
“These plans include manure handling and
storage, application of manure to the land, record
keepign, feed management, integration with
other conservation measures, and other manure
utilization options.’'
Pennsylvania led the nation when the agricul
ture sector worked proactively with national and
regional environmental organization representa
tives to develop a mutually acceptable Nutrient
Management Act.
In the meantime, the EPA issued its proposal
for national regulations and permitting of “con
centrated animal feeding operations" (CAFOs),
which challenged the structure of Pennsylvania’s
existing Nutrient Management Act regulations.
A proposal for modifications of Pennsylvani
a’s program to comply with the EPA CAFO reg
ulations is still being considered.
The Pennsylvania program recognizes high
density livestock operations by setting a thresh
hold of the ratio of livestock weight to land avail
able to raise plants that can use livestock gener
ated manure nutrients.
Pennsylvania’s program also deals with the
raising of livestock, not merely the feeding of
them. (Horse boarding operations and dog ken
nels, for example, are not considered under Pen
nsylvania’s nutrient management regulations.)
The EPA program has slightly different con
siderations for what constitutes a threat to the
nation’s waterways, and has authority to require
certain fattns to have permits under the National
Pollution Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES).
Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental
Protection has been working to create new types
of NPDES permits that can be used with the
Nutrient Management Act to comply with EPA
regulations.
One of the problems with complying with the
federal CAPO rules is with the NPDES permits.
This is because, under Pennsylvania’s system, all
nutrient management plans arc approved through
the authority and expertise of the State Conserva
tion Commission and conservation districts, and
arc not subject to hearings or comment by the
general public.
The possibility of public hearings being asso
ciated with the issuances of NPDES permits is an
matter of concern for agriculturalists, mainly
because it could provide an uncccssaiy oppor
tunity for those opposed to animal agriculture to
legally harass farmers.
Following the CAFO proposal, the USDA/
EPA Unified Joint Strategy for Animal Feeding
Operations (AFOs) was released, with the expla
nation that it not a proposal for new regulations,
but for a program for using the authorities
granted under existing laws and regulations in
order to ensure that livestock operations are not
polluting waterways with nutrients from animal
manure.
According to the AFO news release, “In Pen
nsylvania, (the expectations of the unified
strategy) coordinates well with the state’s Nutri
ent Management Act (Act 6), which establishes
minimum criteria for nutrient management
plans.
“Act 6 requires concentrated animal opera
tions to develop and implement nutrient manage
ment plans. Five to 10 percent of Pennsylvania’s
farms fall into that category,’’ according to the
news release. “The other 90 percent arc encour
aged to develop and implement nutrient manage
ment plans on a voluntary basis.”
EPA