{"id":5218,"date":"2011-12-16T06:32:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T11:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2011-12-27T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T14:39:51","slug":"morning-read-farmers-dodge-tough-new-manure-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/12\/16\/morning-read-farmers-dodge-tough-new-manure-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Farmers dodge tough new manure rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111216\/NEWS03\/712169907\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that the USDA has dropped a proposed rule that would have limited the spreading of manure on frozen ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Without the ability to spread manure in winter, north country farmers  would have had to build storage facilities big enough to hold a few  months\u2019 worth of manure \u2014 costing $250,000 or more for a typical farm,  critics said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to see the USDA take a rational  approach in creating the guidelines for family farms regarding nutrient  management,\u201d Rep. William L. Owens, D-Plattsburgh, said in a news  release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was happy to work with the New York Farm Bureau this year to  address serious concerns their members had with the initial draft  policy when it was released.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Environmental groups and many scientists have long argued that the practice of spreading manure on frozen ground results in far more phosphorous run-off into streams and lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Phosphorous contamination has been a major issue in the North Country, from the Black River to Lake Champlain.\u00a0 Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111216\/NEWS03\/712169907\">WDT&#8217;s full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that the USDA has dropped a proposed rule that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1420,10,884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}