That hypocrisy also extends to the campus. There is hypocrisy on the campus in terms of the type of research conducted, the type of outreach activities that occur. And yet, they expect a farmer to manage it differently. Researchers look at manure management as something outside of the production system. I'm not going to worry about it.
Manure is the single largest soil amendment added to Wisconsin crops annually.
When I work with urban audiences, and try to get them to understand the magnitude of the problem the Wisconsin dairy producer faces, I use an image that came out of a PR firm several years ago. Camp Randall Stadium, we can all visualize Camp Randall Stadium. We generate enough manure, and this was about five years ago, in Wisconsin, to fill that stadium 10 times a week. That's a lot of manure to manage in an environmentally sound fashion. Manure is a major issue, but we can't keep talking about it as a valuable on-farm nutrient source and as a waste in the same breath.