Field Office Compliance - Assistance

Assistance ID - 117776

Franklin Pork Llc - 312496316

1408 290th Street Jefferson, IA 50129

Greene County

FO 4

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2/24/2021	After consulting with Kelli Book, I responded with this: Thanks for the explanation, Kent. I would advise that moving forward you make sure and keep meticulous records documenting your head numbers and sizes. As you know, DNR does not enter building so must rely on your records. Because your permit also includes animal units I believe we are able to accept this rationale.	ALISON MANZ
2/24/2021	Received this email from Kent: I wanted to provide some clarification on the capacity question regarding Franklin Pork. Franklin Pork does not ever exceed the permitted animal unit capacity of the site. As you are aware, beginning with legislation adopted in 2002, animal units are used to determine construction requirements and whether a manure management plan is needed. In Iowa most wean to market hog sites have historically been double stocked and Franklin Pork is not different. Double Stocking is the practice where producers stock a site with additional weaned pigs during the nursery phase of production (.1 animal units per head) and then move the excess pigs to another site BEFORE they reach fifty-five pounds. This leaves the correct number of pigs remaining on-site to comply with the permitted capacity during the finishing phase until the pigs reach market size. Thus the animal unit capacity of the site NEVER exceeds the permitted number of animal units. In the case of Franklin Pork there were less than 7000 head of pigs weighing less than thirty pound each present on site on the day of your visit. That equates to less than 700 total animal units on site that day. Franklin Pork is permitted to 1984 animal units. As such we were well under our permitted capacity on the day in question. The standard practice of the owner of the pigs has been to remove the animals at approximately forty-five pounds of body weight to ensure that the site’s permitted animal unit capacity is never violated.	ALISON MANZ

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