When a speaker at the South West Agricultural Conference asked the crowd in a session on water quality whether they thought their farms were contributing to phosphorous runoff into lakes and rivers, just a couple of people raised their hands. Dennis Frame of the Wisconsin-based agricultural environmental firm Timber Ridge Consulting said he doesn’t try to “shame” farmers, but they must realize that no farm has zero runoff... ...“What we need to do then is sit with every farm and say, ‘We’ve got to figure out what your issues are and help you move forward on that,’” he said. “Actually, that’s been the most powerful thing we’ve done in all of our watershed projects.”... ...moreKen Notes: Good read! May I also note that there is a huge difference between using the manure of a few hundred cows on fields you know to pumping manure from a few thousand cows to farms miles away you know nothing about... | ||
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