So rather than waiting for government to come in and drop that regulatory hammer on you, producers need to recognize that there may be a few bad actors around. Rather than looking the other way and waiting for government to come in and solve the problem, they have a responsibility to their neighborhoods to go talk to that producer before the government comes in and talks to all producers. 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.