8 Broadcaster Press Celebrating Earth Day By Doing Our Part By Mike Jaspers Day, this year we officially celebrate South Dakota Secretary Earth Day April 22. From a young of Agriculture age, we have all learned about the Spring is upon us here in South importance of recycling. This is Dakota! The pastures are greenespecially important for agricultural ing; lambing and calving are under producers as they ensure the proper way; and planting is just around the disposal of pesticides and pesticide corner. The weather is getting nicer containers. allowing all of us to spend some The department of agriculture more time outside, enjoying the offers a pesticide container collecTell South you has it in beautythemDakotasawto offer.the Broadcaster!almost 40 locations tion service at Whether fishing on the Missouri, around the state. Producers can 624-4429 checking calves from horseback or drop off their rinsed containers at simply listening to the birds while these locations, at no charge. After enjoying a morning cup of coffee, we containers are collected, they are have much to appreciate and enjoy. ground into small pieces and sent We also all have a responsibility to to facilities to be made into proddo our part to protect our natural ucts like drain tiles, speed bumps resources so that our kids, grandor fence posts. Over the past two kids Tell them you enjoy it in the than two million and their grandkids can saw decades, more the beauty of our great state. That is containers have been recycled in a responsibility producers and your the state. Broadcaster! department of agriculture take very Sometimes pesticides, both for seriously. agriculture and household use, are Although for those of us in agrifound that can’t be identified or culture who depend on the land for are unusable. In situations when it our livelihood, every day is Earth is not safe to use these products, 624-4429 Tell them you saw it in the Broadcaster! they should be properly disposed of. The department’s waste pesticide program is also available at no cost to make sure chemicals are disposed of in a way that protects the environment. If you have any unidentified chemicals and would like assistance disposing of them, please call (605.773.4432) or email (agmail@state.sd.us). There is a form that needs to be completed to assist with coordination of picking them up. Since 1993, the department has collected and properly disposed of over one million pounds of unidentified chemicals. The first Earth Day was celebrated just one month after I was born. Agriculture has changed dramatically over my lifetime, but the care that producers have for the land has not. Proper disposal of pesticides and recycling of containers is just one thing we do to be the best possible caretakers of the earth that we can be. Place an ad. Make money. It works! 201 W. Cherry • Vermillion, SD 624-4429 Over Serving... 95 you saw Tell them Years In Business Vermillion, Yankton, Sioux City and Everywhere In Between it in the Broadcaster! 201 W. Cherry • Vermillion, SD 624-4429 Vermillion: 605.624.5618 • Yankton: 605.665.4348 Sioux City: 712.252.2000 Call Today! April 25, 2017 www.broadcasteronline.com DENR Reissues General Permit For Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations PIERRE, S.D. – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced today the General Water Pollution Control Permit for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations has been reissued and is now effective. There are 429 livestock operations covered under the existing general permit for concentrated animal feeding operations. “While the existing permit has been successful in protecting water quality in South Dakota, those operations now have one to four years to apply for and obtain coverage under the new reissued permit,” said Kent Woodmansey, administrator of DENR’s Feedlot Permit Program. “DENR will send letters to all permitted operations with information about the process and deadlines for applying.” Livestock operations need coverage under the general permit if they are a large concentrated animal feeding operation, or are required to obtain state permit coverage by units of local government. Producers may also voluntarily apply for and obtain permit coverage. Large concentrated animal feeding operations confine at least 1,000 beef cattle, 700 dairy cows, 2,500 swine weighing 55 pounds or more, 10,000 swine weighing less than 55 pounds, 500 horses, 10,000 sheep, 55,000 turkeys, or 30,000 geese. Large concentrated chicken and duck operations range between 5,000 to 125,000 animals based on the type of operation and whether a liquid or solid manure containment system is used. The content of the reissued general water pollution control permit for concentrated animal feeding operations includes: • state and federal requirements for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of manure management systems to protect surface and ground water quality, • nutrient management plan requirements to ensure that nitrogen and phosphorus in the manure are properly land applied as a fertilizer for crop production, and • a roadmap for livestock producers, design engineers, and crop consultants to reach environmental compliance in South Dakota. The process to reissue the general permit for concentrated animal feeding operations began two years ago during April 2015, when DENR staff started meeting and talking informally with agricultural groups, producer groups, and other interested parties. After a statewide webinar was held, DENR public noticed a draft general permit on Oct. 8, 2015, but it was contested by 11 intervention petitions. A contested case hearing initially scheduled for December 2015 was delayed, rescheduled, and held on Sept. 27-29, 2016. Petitioners represented 624-4429 at the hearing included Dakota Rural Action, South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association, South Dakota Dairy Producers, South Dakota Pork Producers Council and Sonstegard Foods. After listening to twoDesign/Build • Fiber Cabling • Commercial • Residential and-a-half days of testiService Calls • Boom Truck with Auger • Trenching mony at the contested case hearing, DENR Secretary Serving the Steve Pirner, acting as hearBeresford and 1221 Cornell St., Vermillion, SD • 605-624-5642 ing chairman, approved Vermillion Areas 201 NW 13th St., Ste. 3, Beresford, SD • 800-560-2518 revisions and adopted a final permit. Attorneys for the DENR Feedlot Permit Program submitted to the Secretary proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. Dakota Rural Action’s attorney submitted to the Secretary objections to the proposal. On March 10, 2017, the Secretary adopted final Findings Smoke Free of Fact and Conclusions of Law. Parties to the hearing had 30 days to appeal the Secretary’s decision • Rent adjusted to income • Large 2 & 3 bedroom w/AC to circuit court. Since the • Off street parking • Large closets - one walk-in Secretary’s final Findings • On-site coin laundry • Playground equipment were not appealed, the gen• Just Blocks from Campus, High School & Prentis Park eral water pollution control 1200 E. Clark Street • Vermillion, SD permit for concentrated animal feeding operations is reissued and in effect. More information about the reissued general permit can be foundEasyDENR’s Puzzles by KrazyDad on Sudoku Book Broadcaster Press 63 Feedlot Permit Program Fill the puzzle so that every row, every column, and every website at http://denr. section contain the numbers 1-9 without repeating a number. Sudoku #6 sd.gov/des/fp/cafo.aspx. Sudoku #5 Now TODD’S SERVICE Open ELECTRIC To Power” “The Line Rosewood Greenhouse 1400 W. 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