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We toured a dairy area on the west coast. Here is a HUGE manure holding tank. Two semi's can fit inside it. It will hold a years worth of manure and due to the airation system and the bacteria that they encourage to grow in it, it didn't even smell in the tank. However, I'm betting when the dairy man sprays it on the fields it does. :yeah: :gag:

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Here is the other part of the manure holding tank that the first photo couldn't fit in.

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They told us when a problem was with the filter system in the middle of the tank a row boat was used to paddle out to the middle to fix it. Puts the term a sh$$$y day at work in perspective.
 
I bet if they aerated it it stinks, lol.. The hog lagoons don't really smell to bad either until they pull the water off or aerate it, than oh god does it stink... Nothing like it does when it is applied to the fields in the fall but whooosh.. it willt ake your breath away.
 
I stood close to the tank and it didn't smell. We stood there and discussed the tank and never smelt a thing.
 
Aeration should keep the smell down. What we usually smell out of lagoons is anaerobic bacteria that is exposed to air. The reason many lagoons are not aerated is due to cost.
 
What I am talking about, and maybe it is not aeration but every once in a while they aggitate the heck out of the lagoons that I have been around and when they do that it doesn't smell all to great.. Well, it smells like it does when they inject it into the crop land to be honest but it doesn't have the same lenght of stench... now, this is mostly with pigs but the one large industrial dairy that I was near had a lagoon odor while they were "churning" the lagoon up for some reason..
 
IL Rancher said:
What I am talking about, and maybe it is not aeration but every once in a while they aggitate the heck out of the lagoons that I have been around and when they do that it doesn't smell all to great.. Well, it smells like it does when they inject it into the crop land to be honest but it doesn't have the same lenght of stench... now, this is mostly with pigs but the one large industrial dairy that I was near had a lagoon odor while they were "churning" the lagoon up for some reason..
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This wasn't a lagoon. It was a large cement man made holding tank. They are very modernized dairy farmers and aerate and add bacteria and other "stuff" in order to treat the manure. I stood near the edge of it and honestly it did not stink. Maybe the cool climate in Oregon helps with that too????
 
Anything that holds manure is called a lagon around here. Whether it is the old dirt ones, the cement in ground or the giant slurrystores behind the hog places.. Could be the climate, could be the guys I was at just weren't good managers of their waste too.. Or it could be that it was 7-8 years ago and maybe some of the techniques have changed or they weren't doing what they should have been.. Who knows.. But I'll tell ya, it brought tears to my eyes, lol.

Pretty cool that they have developed techniques to keep the odor to a minimum at the large CFO/Dairys... They still have their issues but it will be better for neighborhood relations if the smell doesn't carry 3 miles downwind of the place...
 
Even with the manure tank not smelling they said it still smells when they spray it on the fields. Ick for the neighbors I'd think. :gag:
 

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