Dairy Innovation Hub researchers to study effects of manure management regulation in WI

Two Dairy Innovation Hub researchers are launching a study to learn about how manure management regulations are implemented and enforced across Wisconsin – and they want farmers` input.

Jeremy Foltz, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, and Marin Skidmore, a post-doctoral research associate in the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, are looking at the different ways manure regulations at both the state and county levels are being handled, how it effects water quality and its costs to farmers. The two spoke on a recent Dairy Stream podcast episode, hosted by Mike Austin and sponsored by Edge Dairy Cooperative and Dairy Business Association...

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Ken Notes: Yea! I hope they focus on the amount of water used to dilute waste and the distance from the source it is pumped. Also the photo is not the problem, the problem is not a wagon it is a hose...