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Episode 64: Manure Nutrient Management with Glen Arnold

S3: Ep. 64 Nutrient Management

For over two decades, Glen Arnold has been at the forefront of transforming manure into a valuable resource that benefits both farms and the environment. With a long-standing career as a field specialist in manure nutrient management systems for The Ohio State University Extension, Arnold has witnessed firsthand the tremendous shifts in agriculture over the years – especially in the scale of livestock operations. “And not only that, but the volumes of the manure have also changed,” Arnold remarks. This necessitated an emphasis on how and when farmers applied manure to their fields. 
 
The Evolution of Manure Management
 
Traditionally, manure was primarily applied in the fall after harvest. “In the old days when you would smell manure, the joke was, I can smell money,” Arnold relates. “Well actually that’s ammonia leaving the manure, and that ammonia has value, and we want to capture that to incorporate it or at least apply it to a growing crop that’s going to grab that nitrogen.”
 
Arnold says today’s farmers have to think differently about manure, emphasizing the need for more planning and application techniques to ensure both environmental and crop nutrition benefits. With years of dedicated research, Arnold has tested “hundreds of research plots, just learning to use manure in different ways.”
 
Farmers are learning to harness the nutrient-rich properties of manure in new ways – like applying liquid swine manure, which is exceptionally high in nitrogen, to in-season growing crops to maximize growth and yield potential. “If we can take advantage of those nutrients, we can grow better crops than we can with commercial fertilizer,” explains Arnold.
 
With an increased understanding of how the nutrients in manure affect soil health and water quality, farmers are using innovative technology to apply manure precisely at the right time and at the right rate.
 
Where farmers would once “put all of their eggs in that fall manure application basket,” Arnolds says, they’re now taking advantage of additional windows of opportunity to apply manure into growing crop fields where the plant’s roots can uptake the nutrients more efficiently – helping to address water quality concerns.
 
Start with a Plan
 
For farmers new to manure nutrient management, Arnold says to start with a plan. “Whether it’s a voluntary nutrient management plan through the H2Ohio Program or a comprehensive nutrient management plan, the idea would be that you’re going to rotate your fields and only apply the manure that’s necessary.”
 
Another often overlooked, key component to getting started in manure nutrient management is “taking the time to get manure testing done so that you know what you’re putting into your fields,” Arnold explains. Ideally, the results are compared to your soil tests to form a nutrient management strategy that aligns with your crop needs and environmental stewardship goals.
 
Arnold also suggests that farmers attend local events and conferences, like Ohio’s annual Manure Science Review and the Conservation Tillage Technology Conference where topics are dedicated to manure nutrient management practices.
 
To learn more about manure nutrient management and the ongoing research projects Arnold is working on, listen to the full episode here or on your favorite podcast player.
 
Here’s a glance at this episode:
 [00:44] Glen talks about his background and career in agriculture, from being a county extension agent to a field specialist at OSU, focusing on manure nutrient management research.
[04:05] Glen discusses how manure nutrient management has evolved over the years.
[05:33] Glen suggests how farmers can get started in manure management to maintain soil health and address water quality.
 [07:04] Glen shares how increased understanding of manure’s nutrient content and advancements in precision technology have led to more efficient and effective manure management practices.
[09:13] Glen shares upcoming events farmers can attend who are interested in manure nutrient management.
[12:09] Glen identifies some of the common mistakes farmers make in managing manure.
[14:11] Glen emphasizes the importance of accurate manure sampling collection and where farmers can send samples for testing.
[17:54] Glen discusses the current research projects he is working on and potential future studies.
 [22:11] Glen shares how farmers can contact him with questions and highlights the upcoming North American Manure Expo in Fulton County, Ohio.
[25:04] Glen concludes with AgCredit's support for research and the impact it has had.
 
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Manure Science Review - https://ocamm.osu.edu/events/manure-science-review-2024 
Manure Sampling Laboratories
Brookside Labs - https://www.blinc.com/
A&L Great Lakes Laboratories - https://algreatlakes.com/
North American Manure Expo - https://www.manureexpo.ca/
 
Connect with Glen Arnold https://agnr.osu.edu/people/glen-arnold
 
Connect with AgCredit on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
 
Share questions and topic ideas with us:
Email podcast@agcredit.net

Transcription

Voiceover (00:08):
Welcome to AgCredit Said It. In each episode, our hosts sit down with experts from all parts of the agriculture industry to bring you insights and must have information on all things from farming to finances and everything in between.
 
Matt Adams (00:27):
Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of AgCredit Said It. I'm Matt Adams, and I'll be your host today. And today we are talking with Glen Arnold, field specialist for manure nutrient management systems for The Ohio State University Extension. Welcome, Glen.
 
Glen Arnold (00:42):
Thanks for having me, Matt.
 
Matt Adams (00:44):
So Glen, can you tell me a little bit about yourself, your background, and what brought you into your current position with OSU extension?
 
Glen Arnold (00:53):
Well, I was a county extension agent, or as they call them now, educator, in Putnam County for 22 years. I started back in 1989. Over those years, we saw the evolution of farms getting larger, both livestock and grain farms. And back about 15 years ago, in 2010, is when Ohio State decided they'd like to have a field specialist position to work exclusively with manure. And since I had done manure plots for about five, six years leading up to that, I was able to get the position. And it's worked out in the fact that I'm just about dead center in the middle of the Western Lake Erie basin watershed, so when I work with local farmers on manure research projects, we are right here in the heart of the basin where most of the work needs to take place.
 
Matt Adams (01:47):
We kind of look at, especially your position and when you started Glen, like you said, we've watched our operations just grow tremendously, technology grow tremendously. And I would say probably, I've always looked at our industry and agriculture is probably one of the quickest advancing industries out there for what's all going on, so you've seen a ton of changes looking just probably in even our area here in northwest Ohio, especially with a ton of concern now with our H2Ohio Program and our watershed and water quality and what we're doing as farmers to make sure we're doing the right thing. So your role at OSU, Glen, what does that really entail? What are your duties?
 
Glen Arnold (02:34):
Well, the biggest thing I like to do is I like to do research plots with farmers. We've done literally hundreds of research plots over the years, just learning to use manure in different ways, trying to use manure in season with growing crops and not just put it out in the fall like we traditionally did when I was a child and most people have done. And not only that, but the volumes of the manure have also changed. Years ago, for a dairy to have a four- or five-million gallon pond was a pretty big deal for manure storage, and that would pretty much pale in comparison to the manure storages that we have on larger dairies these days. And even the swine industry, they went from solid manure to liquid manure. And when we were at single-wide buildings, if you've got 400,000 gallons out of that building when you went to pump manure, you were doing pretty well. Nowadays, we have a lot of manure storages and swine buildings are well over a million gallons, and the quads and other larger manure storages that we have.
 
(03:38):
It just necessitates more emphasis, more planning on the farmer's part, perhaps the use of commercial manure applicators to get the job done, but it's not something that you can just say, when I get crops off on October 15th or 20th, I'll have plenty of time this fall to get my manure applied, because there's no guarantee of those windows.
 
Matt Adams (03:59):
Oh, right.
 
Glen Arnold (04:00):
So we don't want to put all our eggs in that fall manure-application basket.
 
Matt Adams (04:05):
And especially it seems like our windows of opportunity, we've even talked about that fall application, seems to be shrinking anymore. It just seems we're under such a tight timeframe for everything. We talk about some of the benefits of manure, but when we look at manure nutrient management, why is that important to our industry, agriculture?
 
Glen Arnold (04:27):
I think we want to maximize the use of all of our products. If you look at the wood industry, there was a time when they burned sawdust and they burned the slabs of wood that came off sawmills and things, and eventually you saw where the industry added glue to those things and started to make USB board. And before that they made plywood, and today they make trusses. There's amazing things you can do with all the byproducts that they use, that you get in the wood industry. And in manure management or in the livestock industry, we're realizing that the swine manure, especially, has a lot of nitrogen in it.
 
Matt Adams (05:04):
Oh yeah.
 
Glen Arnold (05:05):
And if we can take advantage of those nutrients, we can grow better crops than we can with commercial fertilizer. So I think part of it is the evolution of people thinking about manure differently. In the old days when you would smell manure, the joke was, I can smell money. Well actually that's ammonia leaving the manure, and that ammonia has value, and we want to capture that to incorporate it or at least apply it to a growing crop that's going to grab that nitrogen.
 
Matt Adams (05:33):
See now, when we talk about some of the different components and our effective manure management, what are some of those key components when we look at the overall management system for our manure?
 
Glen Arnold (05:48):
I think we need to start with a plan, whether it's a voluntary nutrient-management plan through the H2Ohio Program, or if you're a producer of manure, of course, they would lean you toward a comprehensive nutrient management plan. But regardless of that, the idea would be that you're going to have adequate acreage to put that manure on, you're going to rotate your fields, not apply more manure than necessary. I really emphasize we want to keep our P205 levels in the maintenance range as much as we can.
 
(06:19):
And for farmers who don't like that message, I just remind them that rules can change, and you don't know in 20 years if rules change that you might cut out your grandchildren from farming those fields or from putting manure on those fields because you are stubborn enough that you built those levels of P205 too high, too much phosphorus in the soil. So sometimes you really have to get a hold of some of these farmers and really try to get them to understand that it's not a passing fancy, that water quality is not something that's going to go away in the next election. This is a pretty serious issue that we have to all address with whatever angle we're coming at it.
 
Matt Adams (07:04):
And Glen, are you seeing it through some of your trials, I know a lot of the ones you've done just in our area, is part of that just from past, I guess we talked about the surplus, so maybe the nutrients just from, I won't say over-application, but maybe not quite as well managed application? Is that kind of a common trend, because as farmers, we generally do not want to apply more or put more money out there in that field unless we're going to be able to recoup that return on investment there?
 
Glen Arnold (07:34):
Yeah, part of it is an understanding that manure has nutrients in it. If you talk to some of the old commercial fertilizer people that sold commercial fertilizer, they'll tell you they did not give much credit for the P and the K in the manure that was applied. And back when we were using bed pack manure, back when I was a kid and we bedded with corn stalks and we bedded with straw and stuff like that, when you hauled that solid manure out to the field, it was similar to 10 pounds of organic nitrogen, eight pounds of P205, 10 pounds of K20, so it was a pretty low nutrient product. Well today, with our liquid manures and the ammonia being a water-soluble nutrient, which means as soon as it gets submerged in water it'll attach itself, our manures are richer, and we just need to make sure that when we do our crop rotation and we do our planning for fertilizers, that we're not adding unnecessary or inorganic fertilizer to the fields where we have the necessary levels, the maintenance levels of phosphorus and potash already in place.
 
(08:41):
So that's a lot of it. I think it's just an appreciation for how much better the manure is today than what it was before, and the fact that we can be very precise with the application today. Again, in the old days you had a little six, eight foot wide spreader, and you were meandering around, so you sent the teenager out there to do that. And today we have a lot of commercial mineral applicators with very expensive equipment, but they have the auto steer, and they have their chrome flow meters, and they really do know what's going on in that field and every square foot that they're applying.
 
Matt Adams (09:13):
So for a lot of our farmers that are new to the manure nutrient management, maybe not necessarily new to manure or how to apply it, but getting more into the actual nutrient management side, where should those producers start?
 
Glen Arnold (09:28):
Well, we have an annual Manure Science Review this year. It'll be on August 6th, it'll be down at the Farm Science Review location. Usually we have the two out of three years that'll be up in northwest Ohio, so that's the Manure Science Review that's held every year, and then we usually have one day of the Conservation Tillage Technology Conference in Ada that is dedicated to manure topics and stuff. A matter of fact, AgCredit was the sponsor of my day of nutrient management at the Conservation Tillage Conference this year. And so that's an annual event. And then a lot of times I'll put a lot of my research out on our university Facebook account, and it's Ohio State Extension Environmental and Manure Management. So you can go there and look at some of the research projects we're doing, some of the results.
 
(10:13):
Then the other thing I try to share is ongoing practices in the industry. We have a lot of commercial manure applicators. And we had a very delayed planting season, for the most part, in northwest Ohio, so there was a lot of manure that could not go out in April like we traditionally might've wanted to ahead of the crop. So for many of the operations, they went ahead and planted their crops, and then they came across that emerging corn with the liquid manure. So we had both swine and dairy applied this spring. And then again, that's a crop that's coming up through the ground. It'll grab that nitrogen, it'll run with it pretty rapidly, so it doesn't just sit there on top of the soil until it leads.
 
(10:55):
So I try to put out those types of videos and I try to use new technology, like the Rain 360 that they're using in Paulding County and some other counties, Darke County. Ohio State's got a 360 down at the Farm Science Review that they showed off last year and they will again this year. So we try to just show all these types of technology. And I have a drone, not the best drone flyer, but I try to put the videos up so that people can see it, because most farmers are visual learners here.
 
Matt Adams (11:24):
Right.
 
Glen Arnold (11:24):
You show me something, and I'll figure out a way to do it even better. So we try to show as much in-the-season use of manure as we can, because again, that opens up our application windows. If the spring, pre-season, pre-applicant, pre-plant window was shut, then we go with the post-applicating or post-planting application window. So we try to come up with windows all through the growing season. That gives us more days. You said earlier that we have less time to apply manure in a given year, and that's true. According to our weather people, they say we're down about five to seven days a year of working time, so again, that's a tighter window than what we're used to.
 
Matt Adams (12:09):
Right. So Glen, through all your field trials and working with producers, when we have our farmers getting started, what are some of the common mistakes that you see our farmers make in manure management and what's, I guess, the best practice to kind of avoid them?
 
Glen Arnold (12:26):
Well, I think the first thing is they don't take the time to get manure testing done and know what they're putting onto the fields, and also compare that to the soil tests so that they can balance for those, and I think that's probably the biggest thing. A lot of people will call me up and say, "I want to use my manure in this fashion." I'm like, super, I like that, it works well. Can you tell me what your nutrient content is of your manure?" And then they say, "No, I never pulled manure tests, so we're not going to have that information." So it does make it more difficult to match manure application to crops the way we want to go about that. So the second one I would throw out is that when I was a teenager and dad said, "Haul manure to the field," you hauled manure to the field, and you usually hauled it in the same spot you put that manure on last time you went to that field, so we-
 
Matt Adams (13:15):
Whatever's the closest to the barn, right?
 
Glen Arnold (13:17):
Yeah. We need to be careful about using the fields that are closest to our facilities over and over because some years it's tougher to get the manure out than other years due to rainfall, usually, and crop rotation. So unless you have to, don't use those nearby fields any more than you need to. Go try to get it further away, go to more distant fields. The drag hose industry has evolved. They're going out now three, three-and-a-half miles without a lot of extra work on their behalf, and they're getting the flow rates they want to have to do their job. So look at that, the possibility of moving manure greater distances or putting manure on neighbors' fields and things like that, but don't just pick the fields closest to your barns and build those up and then be really surprised when 20 years from now you may not be able to put manure on those fields at all.
 
Matt Adams (14:11):
And that's a great point, Glen. And you're kind of looking at, oh, I look at this as a lot of guys you said don't maybe know what the content of their manure is or never test it. Well, with all the technology we have out there today from our soil testing to our yield monitoring to everything we do on our planters and keeping track of compaction, it's kind of one of those, why wouldn't you want to know exactly what your manure is? Where are some of the, I guess, what's the best route a producer can do to find out where to get his sample tested so that they know what they have?
 
Glen Arnold (14:48):
Really, the big thing is to try to get an accurate sample, for starters. If you've just got a stagnant pit, then obviously we're going to have more nutrients toward the bottom of the pit than we have near the top of the pit. So you don't want to just reach in there and scoop a few inches off the top and say that's your manure sample. So usually the best time is during the application process, collect a few samples during the loading process. Again, a lot of, if you use top loaders, a lot of people have built little ports on the side of those, they can get a little manure sample out when they need to. And to make life simple for them, you don't have to climb up on the top of the manure tanker and stick your container into the manure flow. So try to make it simple.
 
(15:34):
If you have a commercial applicator that you're working with, a lot of times they'll have the ability to take those samples. But most of our labs, the closest one to us, it's probably Brookside Lab, that's not very far away, but A&L Labs out of Fort Wayne's another common lab. So a lot of your tissue samples go that way, if you do tissue testing, and your soil samples go in those directions if you've done soil sampling. So you usually can go on their website, download the proper paperwork to fill out in advance, or if you just show up at their door with a proper container, I mean, they'll get you logged in and they'll get that in a refrigerator.
 
(16:08):
But it doesn't take much. A lot of people will use, oh, the drinks that you get, the energy drinks in those 20 ounce containers, rinse that out a couple times really, really good. It'll make a nice manure container. You don't have to be anything special to do it, but get that sample, see if it seems reasonable. Many farmers will have similar manure analysis. If you're a grower for a certain producer and your building's a similar age to a neighbor, you're probably going to have similar manure tests, but that's not always true, because different integrators will put in different rations, and something you thought would have 35 pounds of usable nitrogen and 1,000 gallons of swine finishing manure turns out to be 12. And it's just one of those things where you don't want to use it with crops with high expectations that you're going to get a particular yield if you don't really know what product you've got in your manure pit.
 
Matt Adams (17:01):
Right. And Glen, you did say that on your guys' website, there are forms there that producers can grab for manure testing and that type of stuff.
 
Glen Arnold (17:14):
I guess I'm thinking of the websites of the places you can go for the analysis.
 
Matt Adams (17:20):
Okay, gotcha. Yep.
 
Glen Arnold (17:20):
So Brookside would have a website and A&L Labs would have a website. Yes.
 
Matt Adams (17:26):
Definitely. And I guess this will pertain more to our Ohio and northwest Ohio producers, because I'm always hoping when we do our podcast that we're going worldwide. I'm hoping people in other countries are listening to us, but I may be thinking a little heavy, but they can always reach out to your office if they have questions on where to look for this information and stuff?
 
Glen Arnold (17:46):
Right. Right. My cell number is on our university Facebook page, and then if you Google my name with Ohio State, I'm sure it'll pop up on some page that's got my face on it.
 
Matt Adams (17:54):
And that's perfect. For all of our listeners, we'll tag some stuff in our show notes and stuff here that way. Get a hold of Glen for any questions. So I guess going another route here, Glen, can you tell me, so what do you have coming up on the docket here? You got any current research projects you're part of or coming up here in the next year?
 
Glen Arnold (18:15):
Yeah, we just started a multi-year study. The National Pork Producers Board would like to be able to see what the relationship is between manure and soil health. So we started a five-year project with them where we pulled about 270 pounds worth of soil for all the advanced testing that we needed to do to a research field at Whiteville, and then we made our manure application just the other day. And so we'll continue to pull soil samples and apply manure to those plots for a period of years. And I'm not familiar with what is "good soil health" and what is not, but we're going to pull the samples they require. And at some point, hopefully they'll be able to put some numbers together and tell us what the impact of manure is on soil health. So I think it'd be positive, I feel comfortable with that, and we have good results. Most farmers will tell you they can tell where they stopped putting manure on a field two years ago because the crop shows that to this day. But that's one of them.
 
(19:21):
And we've just finished up a three-year plot where we did fall applications of manure in strips and 30-inch rows, and then the following spring we planted corn directly into those strips. And we wanted to find out if it negatively impacted germination and emergence of the corn, which it did not. And it acted like starter fertilizer is what it did, and the corn just grew at tremendous speed. So yeah, we had never harvested three years of plots that averaged 250, 260 bushels per acre before.
 
Matt Adams (19:52):
Oh, wow.
 
Glen Arnold (19:54):
So that was really nice to have. So we've got a number of projects like that. I'd like to start maybe another one this fall. We'd like to do a little more work with poultry litter, perhaps, because that's a tremendous manure product in the state of Ohio. A lot of farmers use poultry litter, and primarily they put that out in the summer as a source of phosphorus and potash and organic material, and we don't really try to take advantage of the ammonium nitrogen that's in that poultry litter. So we're just wondering whether we could use that with wheat. And again, we're not really situated. There's not really anything in the industry that allows us to use poultry litter in a side dress fashion with corn or some other way. So we don't really have that type of equipment available, but it'd be nice to find out through smaller research plots how it could be used. And then again, farmers get very innovative themselves once they could identify a source of nutrients that might be less expensive than inorganic fertilizer.
 
Matt Adams (20:52):
Oh yeah. And I think from a lot of your guys' research you've done in our area and I've watched, one thing, I always look at your guys' stuff is I call it real-world research. This isn't like a 12-month thing. This is multiple-year research that you guys are doing and compiling this data, so there's a lot of work that goes into this stuff.
 
Glen Arnold (21:09):
Right. We did about five years of side-dress research to feel really comfortable with how we can use manure as a side dress for corn. We did three or four years of top dressing of wheat to make sure we were really comfortable with how we would use manure to top dress wheat in April. And then even when we did the drag hose research on corn, we want to see how tall could corn be and the drag hose still be used to be effective. And we found out that V3 corn was fine, V4 was starting to get a little suspect, and V5 is a definite no on that, and those numbers are used all across the country right now.
 
(21:44):
I just talked to somebody from Minnesota and they did a study to look at their numbers and they found the same thing. One thing they also tried is they got a resistant variety of corn, or one that was resistant to high wind, a thicker corn, and they found out with a thicker corn you couldn't go to V4, you had to stop at V3. So that was interesting, just to find out what another state found with what we had started here.
 
Matt Adams (22:11):
Oh yeah. So Glen, are there any tools or resources available out there to help our farmers with manure management?
 
Glen Arnold (22:20):
We're trying to get Bulletin 604 revised. It's an outdated bulletin that's been a key part of Ohio for many, many years. And I'm supposed to get some fact sheets finished, so I need to get that done here in the near future if we possibly can. So those would be the types of things. We should have more written materials, and we're going to continue to work on getting those done, but that would be an area that we should focus more on.
 
Matt Adams (22:47):
So Glen, we kind of touched on it a little bit too, but there again, just let the listeners know again, how can they get in contact with you and learn more about your work, sir?
 
Glen Arnold (22:55):
Well, again, my cell number is usually listed on the university websites, (419) 235-4724. People want to ask me, I get a lot of calls in the spring on manure questions, people wanting to use their manure differently. And I get a lot of texts from people who are about to go out into a cornfield, and they want to know if that's V3 corn or V2 corn or what it is. So when we talk about V3, or vegetative stage three corn, we talk about three true leaf colors on the corn plant. So that's oftentimes you can see five leaves out there if you're just an average person looking at a field. So again, I enjoy that. I always keep my cell phone with me, and I return a lot of calls and texts both day and night, it seems like.
 
Matt Adams (23:42):
Oh, that's awesome. It kind of makes me laugh, I think, a little bit when you say, oh, the farmer's calling you when they're out in the field getting ready to do something. A lot of times as a lender, it seems like I get a phone call, "Hey, I'm at the dealer's lot here, and what's the rate today?" or, "Hey, I just bought this farm at an auction, so yeah, I'm going to send the paperwork your way." So I guess it's just not even my side, it's everybody in our industry gets a little taste of that.
 
Glen Arnold (24:03):
Oh yeah. And it does make you, for me, it makes me feel good that they felt like they could call me on my cell phone at any time to get that type of quick response. And I always, when I get texts, I generally smile, because it's going to be something related to a manure question of some sort.
 
Matt Adams (24:22):
Right. It's one of those, I look at us, we are a tool for our producers' toolbox. We're there readily and available for whatever they need.
 
Glen Arnold (24:31):
You bet. And Ohio is going to host a pretty large manure event in about a year, so the North American Manure Expo will be coming to Fulton County, Ohio, so it'll be at the Fulton County fairgrounds. So that'll be something that we'll be wanting to make some noise about starting in a few months, because next week is the North American Manure Expo being held in New York. So I'll be heading over there to speak and take a lot of notes, because we're the host state next year.
 
Matt Adams (25:02):
That is awesome.
 
Glen Arnold (25:04):
Believe it or not, AgCredit funded much of my early research in northwest Ohio. When Neil Jordan was still in charge of AgCredit, he was really keen on university research done related to livestock agriculture, because everything was farm management and grain and things like that, and then he really enjoyed the manure stuff. So you guys may not realize it, but I think you funded me twice, I think it was like $300 or $400 each time, and we used those to rent some of our early equipment to do some of our early plots and then say, "Holy crap, this has some real potential."
 
Glen Arnold (25:46):
So and then after that we got corn and soybeans involved and we got the farm bureau involved. And so there's other stuff that came later, but I always still fondly recall Neil saying, "If we can help you out, you just let us know." So I told him what I wanted to do, and he said, "We'll get it done."
 
Glen Arnold (26:03):
And that's all he said.
 
Matt Adams (26:05):
And I appreciate that. And that's one thing we've always looked at as an association. For those that may not know about AgCredit or the Farm Credit system, we are a cooperative. We are owned by the members we serve. So promoting things like with Glen's work is that we want to make our producers profitable and find the best avenues for them in all of their aspects of their operations, so continue to support Glen in everything he needs and being a premier lender for northwest Ohio.
 
(26:38):
Well, Glen, I want to thank you so much for joining us today and sharing a lot about manure nutrient management. And one thing I think I took away from this is, what we're doing today affects our next couple generations of farming, so what we're doing here today is for the future.
 
(26:55):
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