Confinement site manure applicator training scheduled in Carroll County
Confinement site manure applicators should plan to attend a two-hour workshop offered by Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to maintain manure applicator certification requirements.
Crawford County confinement site manure applicators can attend a workshop in Castana or Carroll.
Monona County is offering a workshop on February 26 at 1:30 p.m. at Western Iowa Research Farm near Castana.
Monona County is offering a workshop on February 26 at 1:30 p.m. at Western Iowa Research Farm near Castana.
Carroll County will offer two workshops on February 16 at 1:30 p.m. or 7 p.m. in the Carroll County ISU Extension office.
Iowa law requires confinement site manure applicators to obtain two hours of continuing education each year of their three-year certification period, or take and pass the exam once every three years. If applicators fail to get the two hours of continuing education each year, they will be required to pass a written exam to be eligible to recertify.
Workshop participants will learn about land application rules and proposed rules for application of manure on snow-covered or frozen ground. Applicators will also review manure spill case studies and how to interpret a manure analysis report. The workshop serves as initial certification for those applicators that are not currently certified, recertification for those renewing licenses and as continuing education for those applicators in their second or third year of their license.
Operators must be certified to handle, transport and apply manure if the confinement livestock operation has more than a 500 animal unit capacity, unless the manure is applied by a commercial manure applicator.
The certification fee is $100 for a three-year certificate.
This fee is paid when applicators initially get certified and then every three years when they re-certify to apply manure. Confinement site applicators also are required to pay an annual education fee of $25. All fees and application forms must be sent to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to complete certification requirements.
There is no fee to attend the workshop and only those needing to be certified must pay the certification fees.
Applicators are encouraged to attend workshops prior to March 1 to meet certification deadlines and avoid being assessed a $12.50 late fee for re-certification.
Training video tapes will be available for viewing sometime in February by contacting the ISU Extension county office and scheduling a viewing time.
For more information or to schedule an appointment to attend training, contact the ISU Extension office in Crawford County at 712-263-4697 or visit http://www.agronext.iastate.edu/immag/mac.html.
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