Action | Develop requirements that will address concerns regarding transfer and off-site management of poultry waste in the Commonwealth. |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 1/11/2008 |
To regulate the end user of poultry litter is an unfair practice. If you do this, you are going to have to regulate every nutrient that is land applied to any piece of ground. This would include commercial fertilizer also. Are you going to require cattle and horse producers to place a bag on their animals rectum to catch manure while the animal is grazing in the field? Enough cattle and horses on a pasture generate way more than 10 tons of manure per year. Do you have the desire that your end result is going to be that all of this poultry waste is going to remain on the farms where it is produced, in giant piles, because farmers do not want to cut through the red tape to have to get permits to apply it to their land? Wasn't the big problem a few years ago that you didn't have enough places for all of this poultry waste to go? the poultry farmers were overapplying it to their farms because they had no place for it to go? I have an idea...lets stockpile about 400 tons of it right next to the state legislature in the middle of the summer and see if they think that you need to require farmers to get a permit to spread it on their farms for fertilize.