Horse Keeping On Limited Acres…Got Mud?

108 Pages·2009·6.88 MB·English

by  Andrea Graeff

Horse Keeping On Limited
Acres…Got Mud? Got Manure?
Amy Welker
Nutrient Management Specialist
Cumberland Valley Cooperative Association
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Amy Welker
• Nutrient Management Specialist with Cumberland Valley Cooperative Association
• 9 years Nutrient Management Specialist with Dauphin County Conservation District (1998-
2000) and Cumberland County Conservation District (2000-2007) – writing & reviewing
NMP’s; writing conservation plans
• Certified to write nutrient management plans under PA Act 38, certification # 470
• Certified to write nutrient management plans in Maryland
• Certified as a Technical Service Provider (TSP) by USDA
– Certified Conservation Planner , Pennsylvania
– CNMP Plan Approval, Pennsylvania
– CNMP Plan Development - Land Treatment, Pennsylvania
– CNMP Plan Development - Nutrient Management, Pennsylvania
– Nutrient Management - Organic and Inorganic, Pennsylvania
– Grazing/Forages, Pennsylvania
• Passed feed management test
• Provisionally certified in Odor Management, Pennsylvania
• Taking CCA test in February
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Amy Welker
• Long time horse owner
• Show hunters on local and
rated circuit
• Owner/operator Maple Hill
Stables, Shippensburg
– Lessons, blanket laundry
& repair
• BS from Delaware Valley
College in Agribusiness
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Amy Welker
Nutrient Management Specialist
Cumberland Valley Cooperative Association
908 Mt. Rock Road
Shippensburg, PA 17257
717-532-4353 office or 717-977-7551 cell
[email protected]
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Pennsylvania Laws
– all Pennsylvania farms
involved in tillage and/or manure production are
subject to water quality regulations
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Act 38 – Nutrient Management
• October 1, 2006
• Includes all livestock operations….YES horse too
• 8 Animal Units (8,000 lbs of animal)
• 2 Animal Units/Acre
• Nutrient Management Plan
• File plan with local conservation district by October
1, 2008
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What if I don’t have a plan by the date
& I need one
• Contact your local Conservation District immediately to get an extension
• Ask for a list of Commercial Nutrient Management Planners who will write
in your area.
• Contact Commercial Nutrient Management Planners for estimate. Not all
planners base their prices the same so it can pay to shop around. Also to
see if they can do the plan in the aloted time frame.
• Hire Commercial Nutrient Management Planner to write your plan.
• Notify Conservation District that you have hired someone and who you
have hired.
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Clean Stream Law & Chapter 102
• Monitors nutrients & sediment that enters
PA’s bodies of water.
• Early 1970’s
• All operations tilling 5,000 sqft or greater
included
• Conservation Plan or Ag E&S Plan
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For green pastures, clean water and healthy
horses
Good Management Poor Management
• Good grass cover, even • Soil compaction
in winter
• Muddy pastures in winter
• Fewer weeds
• More weeds
• Aesthetically pleasing
• Unhealthy horses
landscape
• Polluted streams,
• Clean water
groundwater, and
household wells
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Components of “Good Management”
• Mud Management
• Pasture Management
• Manure Management
• Water Quality
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