Any dairy farm still use the Slurrystore tank?

[Southern]

One old local dairy used a Slurry Store tank to hold their manure. Instead of a pit. But they was a smaller dairy around 200 cattle. So I was wondering if any operations still uses these?

[socha4440]

The dairy I worked for recently put up this 202ft diameter slurry store. It has the capacity for approximately 480 dairy cows for 13-14 months. They still build these, and each different manure storage facility has its own benefits and disadvantages that each dairy farmer has to consider when building manure storage.

[Southern]

Oh cool. That is a big tank.

[JD_4630]

I can only count a small handful of farms in my area that have slurry stores. One medium size dairy still uses one, another dairy sold their cows, and turned theirs into machinery storage, a beef farm that sold their cows has theirs overgrown with grass and trees all around it, but looks empty, and a pig farm, that never really recovered from the farm crisis, and low prices in the 1980's has one overgrown with grass, and trees around and in it, that one looks full and solid.