Transcript Writing Manure Management Plans for Equine Owners

Let’s
Begin!
Writing Manure
Management Plans!
Manure Management Manual
DEP Manure Management Manual
can be divided into 3 Parts:
Part I
• Requirements/Guidelines
• Sample Plan
Part II
• Checklist
• MM Plan Workbook
• Recordkeeping Forms
Part III
• Appendix 1 – Manure Application Rate
Tables
Manure Management Plan Checklist (p.1)
Contact Information Page (p.2)
• Required
– Owner/operator contact
information
– Date of development
(Fill in when complete)
• Only if applicable
– Preparer other than
owner/operator
– Contact information
Manure Management Plan Exercise - Pg. 2
COMPLETE CONTACT
INFORMATION PAGE
Generate Farm Maps
Maps should include:
1. Farm boundaries
2. Individual field/pasture boundaries
3. Field Identification and acreage
4. Road names surrounding farms
5. Manure storage and stacking areas
Generate Farm Maps (pg. 7)
6. Animal concentration areas:
• Planned (barnyards)
• Unplanned (if impacting water quality)
7. Environmentally sensitive areas:
• Public or private drinking wells
• Streams, lakes, ponds
• Sinkholes
• Areas of concentrated water flow-ditches,
swales, gullies
Generate Farm Maps
8. Winter manure application information:
(If you spread manure in winter)
• Average field slopes will
need to be identified
(NRCS Soil Survey Map
will meet requirements)
• Manure application setbacks
will need to be identified
on the map
Generate Farm Maps (pg. 7)
Maps can be:
• Hand drawn
• Google maps
• Draw required areas
• Ag Erosion and Sediment
or Conservation Plan maps
• Computer generated maps
• www.PaOneStop.org
PA One Stop Mapping
WWW.PAONESTOP.ORG
Free online source
Manure Management Plan
GENERATE FARM MAPS
Note: Additional information
can be added as you
develop your plan
Operation Information Page (p.3)
• Acres on the operation
available for manure
application
– Owned
– Rented
• Animals on the operation
– Animal type
– Animal numbers
• On a typical production
day
– Days on farm per year
• Crop rotation(s)
Manure Management Plan Exercise – Pg. 3
COMPLETE OPERATION
INFORMATION PAGE
A-C
Operation Information Page (p.3)
• Environmentally sensitive
areas (check yes or no)
If yes, must complete
Environmentally Sensitive Areas
Worksheet (p.4)
– Drinking water wells
• Private and public
– Streams, lakes and ponds
– Sinkholes
– Areas of concentrated flow
• Swales, ditches, gullies, etc.
• See Glossary
– Above ground inlet to ag
drainage system
• Only for winter manure application
Environmentally Sensitive Areas
WELLS
PONDS
Environmentally Sensitive Areas Worksheet (p.4)
• List associated fields
• Identify environmentally
sensitive areas
• Mechanical manure
application setbacks are
required, regardless of the
slope of the land or the
ground cover
• Identify on Farm Map
Manure Management Plan Exercise – Pg. 3, 4
COMPLETE
ENVIROMENTALLY
SENSITIVE
WORKSHEET:
Operation Information Page (p.3)
Manure Storage
Manure Storage Facilities (p. 3)
• What’s considered a Manure
Storage Facility?
– Designated location to hold
manure before it is utilized
on or off the farm
• If Manure is stored, then
Manure Storage Facility
Worksheet (pg. 8) must be
completed
Leaching into groundwater
Runoff to surface water
Locating the Prefect Site
• When deciding where to locate and store manure,
consider the following:
– Surface Water: Lakes, Ponds, Streams
– Drinking Wells: public and private
– Relatively flat area, avoid steep slopes
– Away from flood prone areas
• Storm water should be diverted around and away from
storage area
Locating the Prefect Site
• Considerations when deciding where to locate and
store manure:
– Away from high water tables
– Neighbors and property lines
• “Out of sight out of mind”
– Accessible year round (all weather)
• Unloading and loading manure
– Aesthetics
Constructing the Perfect Storage
Base
• DEP Manure Management requires an “improved” base
- limits manure from leaching into ground water
- concrete, crushed stone
• Slope slightly so liquid draining from the pile drains to
the outside and to a vegetative filter
• Loose wet or moist soils should NOT be used as a base
- More likely to drain nutrients into soil and ground water
Unimproved & Unacceptable
Improved & Acceptable
Constructing the Perfect Storage
Covering Manure Pile
• Storage needs to be covered or stored on an
improved base
- Tarp
- Permanent roof
- Prevents pools of seepage from saturated manure
• Gutters are advised to collect and drain storm
water away from storage
Vegetated Treatment Area
VEGETATION!!
Areas of land in permanent
vegetation, designed to filter out
Sediments and Nutrients,
before entering water sources
Vegetated Treatment Area
• Vegetation should be at least 2 -3 times larger
than the size of the manure storage
• Maintenance
– Control undesired weeds species
• Inhibit function
– Inspect after major storm
• No concentrated flow of water
– Maintain height of vegetative stage
1-2” perforations
every 10ft
Grassed buffer area
(~2 to 3x length)
1-2% slope
Impervious base – concrete, stone, 2ft compacted clay
Manure Storage Facilities Worksheet (p.8)
•List all storage facilities or areas:
- Type of Storage
- Year of Construction (if known)
•List size of storage and if exposed to
precipitation
•List any additional materials added
Example – bedding
•Evaluation Documentation
- Identify problems
- Practices that need to be installed to
address problems
- Date to correct problems and install
practices
Manure Management Plan Exercise – Pg. 3, 8
COMPLETE MANURE
STORAGE FACILITIES
INFORMATION
WORKSHEET:
In –Field Stacking
Solid Manure Stockpiling/ Stacking
– Temporary storage
– At least 100 ft from sensitive areas
• Streams, lakes, ponds, wells, open sinkholes
– Cannot be placed within a concentrated water flow
• Swale, ditch or gully
– Cannot be in the same location each year
– Divert upslope water away from stacking areas
– Place on areas with less than 8 % slope
– Limit volume to amount that can be spread on nearby fields
– Stack must be covered if in field for more than 120 days
Manure Management Plan Exercise – Pg. 3, 20
COMPLETE SOLID
MANURE STACKING
AND STOCKPILING
INFORMATION