date:Nov 02, 2012
quired to enroll as Concentrated Animal Feed Operations is 200, but that threshold would be increased to 300 under the plan.
Rolling back those costly manure regulations, which require farms to invest in storage facilities and annual inspections, likely will spur dairy farms with fewer than 200 cattle to grow if they have enough resources to do so, said Joseph R. Lawrence, educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County. But that growth still could require expanding facilities and hi