Title

Resource Guide for Livestock Manure Management

(NM1320, Revised May 2020)
Summary

Livestock manure management issues are becoming increasingly important and complex. Ample educational, technical and financial assistance is available to producers. Individuals are encouraged to take a proactive approach when dealing with livestock manure to take advantage of resources and avoid negative regulatory action.

Lead Author
Lead Author:
Mary Keena, Extension Livestock Environmental Management Specialist
Availability
Availability:
Web only
Publication Sections

Livestock producers and those who work with them often have questions or specific concerns about managing livestock manure. The following is a description of available resources, along with the names of contact people. Some of these programs are strictly educational, while others may provide educational, technical and financial assistance.

Livestock Environmental Nutrient Management Educational Support Program

Sponsor: North Dakota State University Extension

Purpose: This program provides research-based educational programs about livestock manure handling, storage and utilization using technologies that will protect water quality and put livestock producers in compliance with regulations.

Contacts:

Mary Keena, livestock environmental management specialist
Carrington Research Extension Center
P.O. Box 219, Carrington, ND 58421-0219
Phone: (701) 652-2951    Fax: (701) 652-2055

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) field offices

Sponsors: Local soil conservation districts (SCDs)

Purpose: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service field offices work in cooperation with local soil conservation districts to deliver technical assistance to landowners through voluntary programs to conserve natural resources on private land.

Contact: Local soil conservation districts and NRCS field offices are listed in local phone directories under federal government offices. Locations and contact people also can be found at the North Dakota NRCS website: www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/nd/contact/state/?cid=nrcs141p2_001605.

Local Section 319 Watershed Projects

Purpose: Local Section 319 watershed projects can provide financial and technical assistance for planning, designing and installing livestock manure management systems.

Contact:

Greg Sandness, Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Program coordinator
North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality
918 E. Divide Ave., 4th Floor, Bismarck, ND 58501-1947
Phone: (701) 328-5232     Fax: (701) 328-5200

Maps of the active watershed projects in the state and the associated contact directory can be found on the Non-point Source (NPS) website:
https://deq.nd.gov/WQ/3_Watershed_Mgmt/1_NPS_Mgmt/NPS.aspx

The local soil conservation district also can determine if your facility is within an active Section 319 watershed project.

North Dakota Stockmen’s Association Environmental Services Program

Sponsor: North Dakota Stockmen’s Association

Purpose: This program provides site-specific advice on managing concentrated livestock areas, including manure-handling structures and practices that will protect water quality and comply with regulations, and help provide the producer with technical and financial assistance to install the structures and practices.

Contact:

Scott Ressler, environmental services director
North Dakota Stockmen’s Association
407 2nd St. S., Bismarck, ND 58504
Phone: (701) 223-2522     Fax: (701) 223-2587

North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Water Quality, Feedlot Program

Sponsor: North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality

Purpose: This division establishes rules for environmental compliance of animal-feeding operations in accordance with state and federal law, issues approvals to operate animal-feeding operations in compliance, inspects animal-feeding operations to assess environmental compliance and brings facilities that do not meet environmental requirements into compliance with environmental laws.

Contacts:

Brady Espe, environmental scientist
North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, 
Division of Water Quality
918 E Divide Ave., 4th Floor, Bismarck, ND 58501-1947
Phone: (701) 328-5210     Fax: (701) 328-5200
Email: bespe@nd.gov
Website: www.deq.nd.gov/WQ/2_NDPDES_Permits/1_AFO_CAFO/AC.aspx

 

Rachel Strommen, environmental scientist
North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality,
Division of Water Quality
918 E Divide Ave., 4th Floor, Bismarck, ND 58501-1947
Phone: (701) 328-5210     Fax: (701) 328-5200

 

Tyson Jeannottee, environmental engineer
North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality,
Division of Water Quality
918 E Divide Ave., 4th Floor, Bismarck, ND 58501-1947
Phone: (701) 328-5210 Fax: (701) 328-5200

North Dakota Livestock Pollution Prevention Program (LP3)

Sponsor: North Dakota Department of Agriculture

Purpose: This program works one on one with North Dakota livestock producers to identify environmental concerns, and provide the producer with technical and financial resources and access to engineering assistance to establish structures and practices to protect water quality and comply with regulations.

Contact:

Jason Wirtz, North Dakota LP3 Coordinator
North Dakota Department of Agriculture
600 E. Boulevard Ave., Dept. 602, Bismarck, ND 58505-0020
Phone: (701) 328-2216     Fax: (701) 328-4567

NM1320 (Revised May 2020)

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