A Few Notes from: A Legal Update by Mike Blaser
A Need to Put Environmental Performance in Perspective:
1. There are well under 800 municipal sewage systems in Iowa
2. There are well over 10,000 livestock operations that need professional custom applicators to apply manure to land in Iowa
3. The Iowa livestock operations produce multiple BILLIONS of gallons of manure to be used as fertilizer.
***Manure utilized as nutrient allows Iowa crop producers to avoid hundreds of millions of dollars of fertilizer costs - fertilizers made from natural gas, coming in part, from countries that don't like us very much. Be proud Iowa!
4. Producers and Custom Applicators do not have taxpayer-funded resources available to them to deal with manure production
5. In 2010 there were 116 reported bypasses (releases) from municipal systems, no fish kills. Every bypass (release) had a "surface water impact" as reported by DNR
6. In 2010 there were 49 total reported "incidences" involving manure for the Iowa livestock industry. 13 of these "incidents" had a surface water impact. Only 21 of the reported incidents in 2010 involved transport of manure or land application of manure, down from 24 in the prior year.
Livestock Operations and Commercial Applicators are doing a fantastic job of being environmentally responsible, and have improved dramatically over the past decade. There is still room for improvement, and we hope to see even less "incidences" in future years.
We'd like to encourage manure applicators in Iowa to join ICNAA - Iowa Commercial Nutrient Applicators Association go to:
http://iowacnaa.org/
http://iowacnaa.org/pdfs/membership.pdf
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Building a NEW Boat
We're building a new style of Agitation Boats for testing this spring. How the boat works is still the same with 3 outflow nozzles that agitate vertically fed by a Cornell Redi-Prime Pump. We are updating the frame to be lighter-weight and goal-winging the floatation for even faster set-up and clean-up. Call to discuss various sizes and set-ups, visit the video pages on our website or YouTube to see footage from last fall. ...and place your order soon!
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Lemmenes Custom Farms pumping manure two miles. 2220 GPM
Lemmenes Custom Farms using MobileStar's Puck Pumper Control and pumping at 2220 GPM! Good Work Ike!
Tractor Cab with Jeremy 11-21-2010
Jeremy in the Applicator Tractor:
We're pumping out of a sow barn today. We're running through 4 pieces of 8 inch hose, and 3 pieces of 6 inch -- 4 pieces to the first booster, 3 from the second. The first pump is running 67 pounds of pressure at 1900 RPM, the second pump is running 2000 RPM - 186 pounds out, 50 in. (kinda hard to see there) We're doing 2400 gal a min, putting on 1100 gals an acre, and......that's what we're doin' today out of a big sow barn, a 6,000 head barn. And that's a 6NHTB-19 as a lead pump, and a 6NHTB-19 as a booster pump.
Friday, November 12, 2010
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