{"id":366,"date":"2017-01-12T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/?p=366"},"modified":"2018-04-20T15:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T19:37:48","slug":"voluntary-nutrient-management-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/2017\/01\/12\/voluntary-nutrient-management-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Voluntary Nutrient Management Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On September 30<sup>th<\/sup> 2017, Senate Bill 150 will be in effect for the entire state of Ohio.&nbsp; Part of this law is the responsibility of farmers to develop Voluntary Nutrient Management Plans and have them approved by SWCD board of supervisors or Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA).<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Voluntary Nutrient Management Plans (or NMPs) will give affirmative defense to a farmer should anyone complain about use of commercial fertilizer, as long as the plan is being followed.&nbsp; These plans are for farmers using <b><i>commercial fertilizer only<\/i><\/b> &#8211; anyone using manure must have a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan or CNMP.&nbsp; Unlike a CNMP, which the district can complete for anyone that needs one, a NMP can be developed by the farmer following the Ohio Nutrient Management Workbook available from OSU Extension.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnother way to develop an NMP is if grid soil sampling and variable rate application are being used, the recommendations that a farmer receives back from the grid sampling will suffice as long as the time of year and method of fertilizer application are included.&nbsp; <b><i>These plans also must follow Tri-state recommendations for P and K to be approved<\/i><\/b>. &nbsp;<br \/>\nIf a farmer would like the SWCD to develop a NMP, we can do that as well.&nbsp; We just need a current soil test for every field and the fertilizer products used, time of year they will be applied, and application method.&nbsp; ODA is in the process of approving a very nice spreadsheet that will make NMPs fairly quick and easy to read.&nbsp; The spreadsheet will also have a records page for each field where a farmer can write down the time, date, field conditions, 2 day weather forecast, what product was applied, etc.&nbsp; Good record keeping is paramount for defense in the event of a complaint.&nbsp; If anyone has any interest in developing an NMP or has any questions please feel free to contact us at the Coshocton SWCD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On September 30th 2017, Senate Bill 150 will be in effect for the entire state of Ohio.&nbsp; Part of this law is the responsibility of farmers to develop Voluntary Nutrient Management Plans and have them approved by SWCD board of supervisors or Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Voluntary Nutrient Management Plans (or NMPs) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coshoctoncounty.net\/swcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}