Manure Transfer Project

Using a New York Grown and Certified Program Implementation Grant, Ontario County SWCD recently worked with a local dairy farm to install a waste transfer line under State Routes 5&20 in the Town of Canandaigua. This crossing will allow a local farm to drag line apply nutrients to an additional 86 acre tract of cropland a mile from the farmstead, directly from the manure storage facility. The completed project will take up to 140 loads of manure handling equipment traffic off the busy state highway each year. Having an efficient manure application system assures that nutrients can be applied at the right place and the right time to help grow the next crop in rotation.