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MIDDLEBURG -- The Snyder County Conservation District will hold free workshops to show farmers, livestock owners and horse operations how to write their very own manure management plans (MMPs).
Workshops will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Conservation District Office, 10541 Route 522, Middleburg. One workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. The other workshop will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Participants will leave the workshop with knowledge and information to complete a manure management plan that meets current PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulations. MMPs are required by any person who raises or boards animals, produces or receives animal manure, regardless of animal type (equine, poultry, livestock, exotic animals, etc.) or number. We encourage animal operations to start working on their plans as soon as possible. A demonstration on how to use PAOneStop (Penn State's web-based mapping site) to create MMP maps is also planned.
Please register or ask questions by calling Barry Spangler, Ag. Conservation Technician, at 570-837-3000, extension 5, by Friday, Oct. 7.
Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Staffing for this project promoting agricultural environmental compliance was financed in part by an EPA grant provided by the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of EPA, DEP, or any of its sub-agencies.