10.a 2 Lorenz Email re Manure Management1
Anne Hurlburt
From:Michelle Gallagher <michellegallie2@yahoo.com>
Sent:Tuesday, February 14, 2023 7:21 PM
To:Anne Hurlburt
Cc:Correy Lorenz
Subject:Additional Information that the Council will need
1. We plan on spreading the manure on our land. if there is excess manure that cannot be stock piled / composted we have 2 vo lunteers
that would accept the manure. Mike Slater and Wally our neighbor.
2. a 1000 lb cow produces 60 lbs of manure per day. a baby cow produces 5 gals per day. we produce 292.5 lbs per day , 106762.5 per
year, 53 tons per year.
Our acreage can hold 61.5 tons of manure that would be spread on our land. We have a spreader to spread it in our yard.
3. When the manure builds up weekly we will scoop it up with our tractor and put it into our manure spreader and our compost/ stock
pile area.
4. When the ground is frozen it is hard to pick up the manure. We will have to wait until the ground thaws to scoop up the manure.
These cows are outdoors, not in a barn. I have checked with other friends who are also cattle farmers, who stated that there is not a
good way to pick up manure in the winter in the upper Midwest where it freezes.