Dairy Manure Workshop Focusing on Best Practices

WSU is hosting a dairy manure management workshop in Prosser Monday, December 12^th that will focus on best practices for application in farms.

Dr. Haiying Tao with the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences said they want to help farmers maximize the benefits.

“Manure is valuable. It’s a valuable nutrient source for our crops and for our soils. For example, manure can provide essential nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and micronutrients.”

But if manure is applied in the wrong place, with the wrong amount, or at the wrong time, it can be an environmental pollutant and dangerous to humans.

Tao said this is the first workshop like this WSU is hosting and they wanted to have one in Prosser that’s for the ag community.

“We’re trying to help farmers apply manure with the best practices possible so that there is the least chance for manure to become a source of environmental pollution.”

Anyone interested in attending is asked to register at the WSU Extension website.

There will also be the same workshop that happens at the Far West Agribusiness Annual Meeting and Conference.

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