Nutrient Management Planning

In today's environmentally conscious society farms are held to a high standard of environmental stewardship. Most states require dairy farms to meet these standards by following nutrient management plans. Nutrient management plans take into account all nutrient inputs (commercial fertilizer and grain) and outputs (manure, waste feed and animal mortality). The nutrient management plans purpose is to calculate and determine the amount of waste produced on the farm and then show that the farm has the land base to allocate those waste in an environmentally sound manner. The overall goal of the nutrient management plan is to limit the effect the farm has on the environment.