ISSUE 25: Should a new livestock farm siting consider only the individual farm-to-farm-edge guidelines and standards ?
RESPONSE: NO. Those involved in considerations for siting new proposed farms should consider the guidelines and standards which apply to that individual farm to minimize its off-site impacts. In addition, the cumulative effect of increasing numbers of farms and animals within the boundaries of a watershed need to receive more attention. Farming and waste treatment are not exact sciences. Even if all the farms in the watershed were managing the manure and nutrients according to recommendations, the crops and grasses are not 100% efficient in using those nutrients. A certain amount of nutrients, whether organic or inorganic, are unused by the plants and enter the environment. As more farms are developed, more cumulative nutrients will be unused unless every inhabitant in the watershed finds a better way to use them. Each watershed has a finite capacity to assimilate these unused nutrients in a sustainable manner. This carrying capacity, dependent not only on the agricultural nutrients bu
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