Collaboration, discussion key in fashioning new manure standards

CASCO – When veterinarian and dairy farmer Don Niles established his new operation with partner, John Pagel, 17 years ago, he made animal and environmental welfare a non-negotiable top priority.

Over the years, large dairy farms like Niles and Pagel’s Dairy Dream LLC have come under scrutiny from environmental groups, especially those operations located in northeast Wisconsin where cattle populations have grown, and geology creates conditions where manure can trickle through the soil and taint groundwater....

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Ken Notes: Again we can fix this and the solution is requiring these large facilities to adopt technologies that create safe clean effluent. I love the Collaboration key approach especially if we bring smaller farms to the table...