Idaho Administrative Code
Title IDAPA 02 - Agriculture, Department of
Rule 02.04.14 - RULES GOVERNING DAIRY BYPRODUCT
Section 02.04.14.010 - DEFINITIONS

01. Approved Laboratory. A soil testing laboratory that meets the requirements and performance standards of the North American Proficiency Testing Program under the auspices of the Soil Science Society of America. (3-31-22)

02. Certified Soil Sampler. An individual qualified and approved by the Department to collect soil samples according to the 1997 University of Idaho Soil Sampling protocols or other method as approved by the Department. (3-31-22)

03. Dairy Animal. Milking cows, sheep or goats. (3-31-22)

04. Dairy Byproduct. Solids and liquids associated with dairy animal rearing and milk production including, but not limited to, manure, manure compost, process water, bedding, spilled feed, and feed leachate. (3-31-22)

05. Dairy Environmental Management System. The areas and structures within a dairy farm where dairy byproducts are collected, stored, treated, or applied to land. These areas and structures may include corrals, feeding areas, collection systems, conveyance systems, storage ponds, treatment lagoons, and evaporative ponds and land application areas, but do not include pastures as defined in these rules. (3-31-22)

06. Dairy Farm. The land owned or operated by a person as an integral component of a Department-permitted grade A or manufacture grade facility where one (1) or more milking cows, sheep, or goats are kept, and from which all or a portion of the milk produced thereon is delivered, sold or offered for sale for human consumption. A dairy farm does not include those lands that contain non-dairy animals provided a physical separation exists from lands owned or operated by the dairy, byproducts remain separate, and dairy animals are not comingled with nondairy animals. (3-31-22)

07. Dairy Storage and Containment Facilities. The areas and structures within a dairy farm where dairy byproducts are collected, stored, or treated in conformance with engineering standards and specifications published by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service or by the AS ABE, or other equally protective criteria approved by the Director. These areas may include corrals, feeding areas, collection systems, conveyance systems, storage ponds, treatment lagoons, evaporative ponds, and compost areas, but do not include pastures as defined in these Rules. (3-31-22)

08. Inspector. A qualified, trained person employed by the Department to perform dairy farm inspections. (3-31-22)

09. Land Application. Mechanical spreading on, or incorporating into the soil mantle, dairy byproduct as a soil amendment for agricultural use of nutrients and for other beneficial purposes. Land application does not include pasturing animals as defined in these rules. (3-31-22)

10. Modification or Modified. Structural changes and alterations to the dairy storage and containment facility that would require increased storage or containment capacity or the function of the facility. (3-31-22)

11. Pasture, Pasturing, and Pastured. For purposes of these rules, a pasture is an irrigated or dryland field with forage plant growth covering a minimum of fifty percent (50%) of the field. Pasturing and pastured is dairy animals and other animals owned, leased, or otherwise under the control of the producer, grazing in the same dairy farm pasture. (3-31-22)

12. Permit. A permit issued by the Department allowing the sale of Grade A milk or manufacture grade milk. (3-31-22)

13. Phosphorus Site Index. A method to evaluate the relative potential for off-site movement of phosphorus from a field or pasture based upon risk factors relating to surface transport, phosphorus loss potential and nutrient management practices. (3-31-22)

14. Producer. The person who owns or operates a permitted dairy farm. (3-31-22)