dairy lagoons

The Washington state Department of Agriculture is reminding livestock producers, dairy operators and anyone with a few large animal to plan now for proper manure storage and usage during the fall and winter months.  Chery Sullivan with the WSDA says it’s important to understand the soil composition near any lagoons or fields where you plan to apply manure.  She said...

The Cow Palace Dairy in Zillah has begun the process of lining their manure lagoons to prevent leakage into area groundwater according to a press release from the Western Law Environmental Center.   The lining comes after a settlement in a 2015 lawsuit brought by Community Association for the Restoration of the Environment in which Cow Palace, Bosma and George DeRuyter and Sons dairies were found