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Dairy Farms in Your Watershed

We all live in a watershed. Explore ways that dairy farms protect the environment while producing our food.

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What’s a watershed? A land area where all water on the surface or below collects in the same place. Everyone lives in a watershed, including dairy farmers!

Farmers know the importance of a healthy watershed. After all, water leaving the farm goes downstream and could become the water that you drink or be an essential resource for fish and wildlife.

The map below features several dairy farms in the Chesapeake Bay, Genesee River, Delaware River, and New York City watersheds. Click the icons to read and see a video about each farm. Which farms share your watershed?

Del-Rose Farm

Del-Rose Farm

Bloomville, NY

New York City Watershed

Protecting New York City’s water supply has benefits for city residents and farmers alike. Del-Rose Farm works with veterinarians, nutritionists, and environmental experts to produce a wholesome product while protecting the watershed. Practices like manure management, no-till, cover crops, crop rotation, and stream crossings all combine to enhance environmental sustainability.

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Clark Farms

Clark Farms

Delhi , NY

New York City Watershed

New York City’s exceptional drinking water doesn’t come by accident. Upstream dairy operations like Clark Farms play essential roles in making this possible. The farm uses several techniques, including manure management, soil testing, stream buffers, and minimal soil disturbance to achieve environmental and economic goals.

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Spring Run Dairy

Spring Run Dairy

Pittstown, NJ

Delaware River Watershed

To protect a creek that leads to the Delaware River, Spring Run Dairy stores manure until it can be best utilized to fertilize cropland. Cover crops and no till practices leave the soil undisturbed, enhancing soil health and minimizing sediment and nutrient loss. A retention basin slows and reduces runoff to the stream.

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Walmoore Holsteins

Walmoore Holsteins

Cochranville, PA

Delaware River Watershed

Established in 1909, Walmoore Holsteins is owned and operated by fourth generation dairy farmer Walt Moore. The farm uses a comprehensive nutrient management program, creates healthy soil through the use of conservation practices like no-till and cover crops, and protects water resources with recycling and stream buffers. Walt collaborates with different organizations and downstream communities in neighboring Delaware to ensure that water leaving his farm is clean.

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Kurtland Farms

Kurtland Farms

Elverson, PA

Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Dairy cows are the source of two products: milk and manure. At Kurtland Farms, manure is a carefully managed resource that grows crops on 250 acres. It’s important to keep those manure nutrients on the fields rather than washing off the land during storms, so practices such as manure injection, cover crops, and buffers are used to benefit both the farm and the environment. Even runoff from barn rooftops is carefully managed!

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Meadow-Vista Dairy

Meadow-Vista Dairy

Bainbridge , PA

Chesapeake Bay Watershed

On 700 acres just a mile from the Susquehanna River, Meadow-Vista Dairy keeps soil and nutrients on the fields instead of washing off during storms. They also recycle manure, water and sand, practice energy conservation, and use renewable energy. Stream buffers further protect local waterways.

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Reinford Farms

Reinford Farms

Mifflintown , PA

Chesapeake Bay Watershed

On Reinford Farms, environmentally sensitive areas are protected and food waste and cow manure are converted to renewable energy. By not disturbing the soil used to grow crops and keeping vegetation in the fields year-round, the farm minimizes soil erosion and nutrient runoff.

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Fair Hill Farms

Fair Hill Farms

Chestertown, MD

Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Just a few miles from the Chesapeake Bay on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the owners of Fair Hill Farms take seriously their role as environmental stewards. They recycle sand, water, and manure and use grass waterways and a bioreactor helps to keep ground and surface water clean.

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McMahon's E-Z Acres

McMahon's E-Z Acres

Homer, NY

Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Located in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay watershed—nearly 250 miles away from the Bay, E-Z Acres uses a combination of well monitoring, riparian buffers, careful nutrient management and the “Taj Mahal of manure storage” to protect drinking water and surface water quality.

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Albano Farms

Albano Farms

Stamford, NY

New York City Watershed

The New York City watershed provides 1.3 billion gallons to 9 million New Yorkers each day. Using practices like manure storage, cover crops, and riparian buffers, Albano Farms works with key partners to ensure that water stays clean.

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Noblehurst Farms

Noblehurst Farms

Pavilion, NY

Genesee River Watershed

Roughly 40 minutes south of Rochester, NY, Noblehurst Farms carefully manages manure to maximize its use as a crop fertilizer and keep it where it needs to be—on fields and in the soil, rather than washed into local streams. The farm also plays a special role in reducing food waste while generating renewable energy.

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Worth the Wait Farms

Worth the Wait Farms

Stevens, PA

Chesapeake Bay Watershed

The Susquehanna River provides half of the freshwater entering the Chesapeake Bay. Worth the Wait Farms uses cover crops, no till, and other practices to help keep the soil healthy and the water clean.

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HaR-Go Farms

HaR-Go Farms

Pavilion, NY

Genesee River Watershed

The Genesee River journeys 157 miles northward from its origin in Potter County, PA, to Rochester, NY. In addition to producing quality milk, HaR-Go Farms uses conservation practices like manure injection, cover crops, pasture management, and stream buffers to ensure the river remains an environmental, recreational, and economic asset.

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