{"id":27861,"date":"2023-12-06T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=27861"},"modified":"2023-12-06T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:30:42","slug":"winter-ban-on-spreading-manure-begins-december-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2023\/12\/06\/winter-ban-on-spreading-manure-begins-december-16-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Ban on Spreading Manure Begins December 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Winter-Ban-on-Spreading-Manure-December-16%E2%80%93March-1.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27862\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2023\/12\/06\/winter-ban-on-spreading-manure-begins-december-16-2\/attachment\/winter-ban-on-spreading-manure-december-16-march-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Winter-Ban-on-Spreading-Manure-December-16%E2%80%93March-1.png?fit=940%2C788&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"940,788\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Winter Ban on Spreading Manure December 16\u2013March 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Winter-Ban-on-Spreading-Manure-December-16%E2%80%93March-1.png?fit=760%2C637&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27862\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Winter-Ban-on-Spreading-Manure-December-16%E2%80%93March-1.png?resize=300%2C251\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Winter-Ban-on-Spreading-Manure-December-16%E2%80%93March-1.png?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Winter-Ban-on-Spreading-Manure-December-16%E2%80%93March-1.png?resize=768%2C644&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Winter-Ban-on-Spreading-Manure-December-16%E2%80%93March-1.png?w=940&amp;ssl=1 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>ANNAPOLIS, MD (December 6, 2023)<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0<strong>Maryland Department of Agriculture\u00a0<\/strong>reminds farmers that the winter ban on spreading manure and other nutrient sources on cropland, including food processing residuals (FPRs) begins\u00a0<strong>December 16, 2023<\/strong>. Farmers may resume spreading on March 1, 2024, based on their nutrient management plan recommendations, as long as fields are not saturated, snow-covered, or hard-frozen.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Maryland\u2019s nutrient management regulations prohibit farmers from spreading manure and other nutrient sources on fields in winter due to the increased risk of runoff into local waterways. Farmers are required to store liquid manure sources generated on farms in structures. The department is authorized to work with livestock farmers to prevent overflows from storage structures and minimize impacts on water quality. In these instances, farmers must contact the\u00a0<strong>Nutrient Management Program<\/strong>\u00a0for emergency authorization before spreading occurs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Temporary field stockpiling of \u201cstackable\u201d poultry litter and other qualifying organic nutrient sources is allowed if the moisture content is 60% or less. Farmers may not apply stackable organic nutrient sources to fields in winter under\u00a0any\u00a0conditions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Farmers should contact their regional\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/resource_conservation\/counties\/Nutrient%20Management%20Regional%20Offices.pdf\">nutrient management specialist<\/a>\u00a0if they have storage concerns, questions about the regulations, or need guidance on storage requirements. For more information, please visit the department\u2019s Nutrient Management Program\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/resource_conservation\/Pages\/farmer_information.aspx\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center\">#\u00a0 # #<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mdagdept\">@MdAgDept<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD (December 6, 2023)\u2013 The\u00a0Maryland Department of Agriculture\u00a0reminds farmers that the winter ban on spreading manure and other nutrient sources on cropland, including food processing residuals (FPRs) begins\u00a0December 16, 2023. Farmers may resume spreading on March 1, 2024, based on their nutrient management plan recommendations, as long as fields are not saturated, snow-covered, or<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2023\/12\/06\/winter-ban-on-spreading-manure-begins-december-16-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27863,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27861\/revisions\/27863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}