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Central Valley dairies eligible for NRCS funding on water quality projects Western United Dairymen and the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are partnering in a new project to support dairy producers in the Central Valley. The program is entitled the Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP) and will help producers comply with the Central Valley Water Board’s General Order. This partnership, authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill, will augment the current EQIP funding, is specifically targeted to dairies, and will be available in Central Valley dairy counties. It will help fund Waste Management Plans (WMPs) and water quality infrastructure improvements for enhanced water quality protection. WUD, NRCS, dairy farmers and California Registered Professionals will work together to comply with the regulations. All dairy producers in the Central Valley are eligible to apply. A successful applicant will receive funds to hire and work with a California Registered Professional to prepare a Waste Management Plan for their dairy. Projects to improve manure management will also be eligible for funding. There will be a total of $17,300,000 available over a three-year period, with $5,800,000 in funding available this year. This partnership project will be administered by NRCS through the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP). —From WUD Weekly Update Tires, manure may be used for clean energy It may not smell that way, but old tires and cow manure could mean clean energy at Threemile Canyon Farms near Boardman, Oregon. Portland, Oregon-based Northwest Biogas has proposed using the tires and cow manure to make methane on the 93,000-acre dairy farm and wants a permit from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to store waste tires. Northwest Biogas wants to use 40,000 waste tires to help grow micro-organisms in an anaerobic digester. The company would use the waste tires inside a lined and covered digester lagoon. If the facility ceases to operate, Northwest Biogas will have to clean, remove and recycle the tires. Threemile Canyon Farms has 17,000 cows that produce about 120 pounds of waste a day each. Threemile flushes the manure along cement alleys and pipes to a lined lagoon, where it releases methane. —From East Oregonian Air district decision reinstates Rule 4570 As anticipated, the governing board of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District in June voted to re-adopt Rule 4570 that regulates VOC emissions from dairies and other confined animal facilities. The action comes after a court ruled that the district did not sufficiently address the public health impact of the rule, and the district needed to set aside the rule until a health effects study was accomplished. The district has now completed an extremely comprehensive and exhaustive health report, allowing the rule to be re-adopted. The air district had requested that dairy families continue to comply with the rule while it was in suspension. —From WUD Weekly Update Idaho water officials enforce curtailment order Idaho water officials quietly fanned out across southern Idaho to check if farmers, dairy farms and businesses were complying with an order to shut off groundwater wells. The Idaho Department of Water Resources issued a curtailment order in late July targeting 250 water right holders in parts of seven counties, across 9,000 acres. —From The Times-News UC Davis begins $2.8 million in studies of nitrogen’s impacts University of California Davis researchers will receive $2.8 million in new grants to study the use and impacts of nitrogen. The new Agricultural Sustainability Institute grants and objectives include: • $1.5 million from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for a statewide assessment of existing scientific evidence on nitrogen use in conventional and alternative farming systems, and relevant practices and policy options. Also: a program to improve communication about nitrogen concerns among California farmers, ranchers, extension advisers, environmental and community groups, agribusiness (including the fertilizer industry) and government agencies (including California Department of Food and Agriculture and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). This grant is to the Agricultural Sustainability Institute, in collaboration with the University of California Agricultural Issues Center, Kearney Foundation for Soil Science and the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. • $500,000 from the California Energy Commission and $350,000 from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to Johan Six for new research on nitrous oxide emissions in various farming systems. • $300,000 from the California Air Resources Board to Will Horwath, professor in the UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, for research on practical ways to reduce nitrous oxide emissions in California agriculture. • $150,000 from the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Fertilizer Research and Education Program to Horwath, Six and David Goorahoo, an assistant professor at the Center for Irrigation Technology at California State University, Fresno, to measure nitrous oxide emissions from cotton, corn and vegetable cropping systems. —From UC Davis News Service MPCA orders Excel Dairy to empty manure basins The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) in July issued an Administrative Order requiring Excel Dairy to take immediate action to empty basins two and three at its site near Thief River Falls, Minnesota. The purpose of the action is to resolve hydrogen sulfide and odor issues caused by the manure in the storage basins. The Administrative Order is a step in the enforcement process to address Excel Dairy’s ongoing noncompliance with its April 2009 permit. If Excel Dairy fails to comply with the order, the matter will be referred to Marshall County District Court. ANM —From MPCA press release
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