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Post by jamshundred on Jul 7, 2015 18:07:24 GMT
I see where the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is suing the state of.Virginia to force mandatory fencing of all water resources in the state to prevent access by domesticated animals.
Judy
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Post by otf on Jul 7, 2015 20:06:03 GMT
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Post by jamshundred on Jul 8, 2015 4:13:36 GMT
Gale,
Yes that is it. The Chesapeake Bay has become a money hog cause for non-profits and charities.
200 years ago there were millions of animals cooling in the waterways, leaving behind manure and urine and a small population of humans in comparionn. The streams of America were pristine. Today there are millions and millions of humans and very few animals standing cooling in streams and water across the country is polluted. That is in the places that still have water. Times are getting tough in the west. I think the blame is misplaced.
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Post by lakeportfarms on Jul 8, 2015 10:02:44 GMT
It isn't much different here, right next to the Great Lakes. We don't have a stream on our property, but we have a seasonal ditch that flows pretty well in spring and heavy rains. Our farm is only a mile from Lake Huron. I think the EPA new guidelines were rejected by Congress, but if they hadn't we would have possibly lost 50% of our grazing area as a "buffer zone". Meanwhile I've seen the local septic tank company driving their trucks on the corn and soybean fields after harvest spraying human waste. Uh huh!
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Post by lonecowhand on Jul 8, 2015 18:06:25 GMT
I thought human waste needed to be treated or remediated prior to spreading.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2015 19:33:15 GMT
I dont think cows should be in water ways. However leave it to the government to regulate and they will screw it up. I fence mine off with hot wire. I do rotate them in to graze them when appropriate. In Iowa the soil is clay if you let it grow up in brush( which it does if you dont graze it) you have no ground cover you have massive bank erosion in just a few years. I have a lot of area that is grown up before I got the property and it is eroded badly. It is a work in progress. It is raining here a lot this year. No cows on stream banks they will tear it up. when it dries up some they will get a couple of quick rotations trough it.
If you rotate correctly as I and hans do. managed grazing can be very beneficial to stream banks. If you plunk your CAFO down in the middle of a stream because its the cheap land that cant be row cropped then that is very bad.
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