The nearly 3,000 trees that we've planted around buildings serve as a windbreak and habitat for birds, small animals and deer, as well as give our facilities a clean appearance. The manure management program consists of monitoring soil nutrient levels, lagoon nutrients, site-specific effluent application records, lagoon liquid levels and crop yields. Grass pastures near the Ozark Pyramid location are irrigated with water from the lagoons. Nutrients from the pastures are then removed via grazing dairy heifers and haying practices. The farm's odor control program includes natural windbreaks downwind of lagoons to break airflow and dissipate odor, as well as odor monitoring.
Water sampling is the routine here.
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