Read this as legislatively override the decision if Congress doesn't like it. Federal dairy politics are expected to heat up this summer along with the weather. Manure Enterprise in Your Dairy Environmental issues related to manure put priority on managing manure carefully. It will become essential to maintain records to document how manure nutrients are distributed. Such a focus on manure management goes a long way toward delineating an enterprise within the dairy that we haven't focused on previously.
Many dairies already consider, and account for, heifer rearing and cropping as separate enterprises.
Since there isn't much choice regarding the need to manage manure, cost accounting for this new enterprise can provide an opportunity to identify potential profits, or at least evaluate low cost alternatives. You may think manure management is only a sink-hole of expense, but there is enough resource value in manure to warrant evaluation. These nutrients have fertilizer value when recovered and utilized. Their value might be estimated in terms of commercial fertilizer. However, often manure is applied to supply all of the N needs of the crops and, thus, the P and K are applied in excess.