How much will adding environmental controls cost?
Cost of environmental protection controls varies greatly depending upon the size of your feedlot, topography, soils, rainfall and degree of controls already existing on your feedlot. The Iowa Beef Center recently published the Beef Feedlot Systems Manual (PM 1867), which compares and contrasts initial costs, annual costs, per head costs and animal performance issues in five different feedlot facilities. You can obtain the Beef Feedlot Systems Manual by contacting your county Extension office or by visiting the Iowa Beef Center Web site. Q22. Is there a risk to doing some engineering and construction before contacting the DNR? Yes. Thats one reason that the DNR has worked with producer and environmental groups to develop an amnesty program. The DNR would rather work with the producer to make sure that whatever system is developed will be environmentally beneficial and meet state and federal requirements. If a producer builds without checking with the DNR, then the job may have to be don
