Dairy Farm Planning
Resource Guide
Soon Available
Pennsylvanians who are considering building new
dairy facilities or expanding their current operations
will soon have a new tool to get the job done. The
Pennsylvania Dairy Stakeholders, along with Penn
State’s Dairy Alliance and various industry support
ers, are compiling a Dairy Farm Planning Resource
Guide to assist farmers in the correct steps to take and
resources available to use when building or expanding
a dairy operation.
This guide, a result of the Dairy Development Exec
utive Task Force meeting conducted in April 2002,
will include a comprehensive list of the steps that
should be taken in preparing for and constructing a
new dairy operation or expanding an existing one. It
will include information on business planning, permit
ting, community relations, construction planning, op
erational planning and much more.
The.value of the guide lies in its resources. Within
each step, the guide will list resources that dairy
owners may contact for help or information. As the re
sources listed will continually grow and change, the
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guide will be available to producers online. Printed
versions will also be available upon request.
“Expanding a modern dairy farm is a complex and
time-consuming job. The Dairy Farm Planning Re
source Guide should help producers save time and
avoid costly mistakes during the planning and con
struction phases of a building program,” said Chuck
Cruickshank, Pennsylvania Dairy Stakeholders presi
dent.
The guide should be available by late fall 2002.
Tighter Nutrient Restrictions
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guidelines, dairy producers were still having difficulty
adjusting to the new requirements. The problem has
gone unmonitored for so long, that it is difficult to find
a way to adapt any early solution to the problem. I feel
that producers in the rest of the Northeast can look at
this as an opportunity to better situate their business
for future production and growth. It is very likely that
similar guidelines will be hastened into place in our
region as well, so whatever can be done to reduce P
waste now should be implemented. This can be accom
plished by upgrading manure systems, reducing P
feeding levels in the ration, and soil testing to deter
mine P content, etc.
Knowing where you are today in relation to future
regulations will ease the transition into a more inten
sive waste management system.
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