One way to address what to do with excess chicken litter on poultry farms on the Eastern Shore is to make it someone else’s problem, and more specifically the company that supplies the birds to the people who raise them.
That is, essentially, what HB 599 — the Poultry Litter Management Act, would do: lift the responsibility for chicken litter deemed to be in excess of nutrient management plans or phosphorus management tool restrictions from farmers to “integrators” (poultry companies), which would then manage the transport and delivery of the litter to appropriate facilities.
“I’m not making a statement whether we should or shouldn’t do this but to keep an industry strong, they need to have a product to sell,” former county commissioner and poultry farmer Virgil Shockley said. “It’s like playing Russian Roulette with a huge amount of money.”
Shockley said the major integrators like Purdue, Allen, Mountaire and Tyson are expanding out of Maryland and into Virginia and Delaware because increasing regulations.
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Perdue just announced major expansion plans in NC.
ReplyDeleteI hope your chains rest lightly on you limp wristed liberals
sell your homes while you still can, or do as i'm doing, take a loss just to get out of here.
Good I hope they tick off the big boys and they take their CAFOs elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteThey are abusing the residents here anyhow.
I do believe there is a higher being though.
I just read an article that said Nutters neighborhood is getting their own CAFO. Not just the little guys affected anymore.
Lets see if that one goes through.
2:17 Good???
ReplyDeleteDo you breath oxygen or have gills?
To think people on Delmarva would welcome a corporation like Perdue, which employs tens of thousands here, to leave because of CAFO's and other bull, is beyond comprehension.
You are the epitome of what's wrong with our country. You've been brainwashed by the liberal media into a non rational, non thinking, pseudo intellectual whom has no clue how the food on his/her plate got there. And yet, you're the first in line at the feed trough complaining about things of which you know absolutely nothing about.
Next time you go grocery shopping, stop, turn around, and go back from whence you came. Become a family farmer and produce your own food without any kind of waste or by-product and then come back here to enlighten us all on your success.
You are a giant flaming hypocrite every time you sink your teeth into that stuff we call food.