News - Manure

KAP says a new program to help Manitoba livestock producers cover the costs of manure handling infrastructure is good news, particularly for the small medium sized operations.

Manitoba Pork Producers are applauding a new federal provincial program designed to help them comply with new provincial environmental regulations due to kick in in November 2013.

Manitoba pig producers will soon have access to more than $26 million to help them improve manure management and to reduce the risk of water contamination.

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) welcomes the federal and provincial announcement regarding an investment for Manitoba pork producers through the Manure Management Financial Assistance Program (MMFAP).

Manitoba pork producers are expressing concern over the misconception that hog manure is being allowed to enter provincial waterways, threatening water quality within the lake Winnipeg watershed.

Manitoba’s pork producers are calling on the province to ensure any program to assist in building manure storage lagoons provides enough funding to be worthwhile and is made available quickly.

Manitoba’s minister of agriculture food and rural initiatives is pledging to help the province’s livestock producers adapt to a planned 2013 ban on the winter spreading of livestock manure.

DGH Engineering suggests it will take a combination of economic incentives to encourage the adoption of anaerobic digestion for processing livestock manure in Canada.

The president of ATD Waste Systems says adoption of a new solid-liquid manure separation technology will to allow a greater concentration of swine while decreasing the potential environmental consequences.

The president of ATD Waste Systems expects construction of the first facility to utilize a new solid liquid manure separation system to be underway in China within the next six months or so.