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Whatever you’re building, we’ll get it approved.
Manure storages, barns, feed structures and shops: designed, permitted and carried through to approval. Plus the Act 38, manure, odor and E&S plans that have to line up with them. One office holding both sides, so they never contradict each other.
01 — Two halves of the same job
Two kinds of approval.
Most operations need both, usually at the same time. Splitting them between two firms is how a barn ends up sited where the odor plan won't allow it.
Farm building design & permitting
Manure storages, animal housing, feed and commodity structures, shops and equipment storage. Siting, grading, stormwater and the permit package, carried through every agency review to approval — with the scope and fee agreed before anything starts.
See how a building project runs →
Compliance planning
Act 38 nutrient management, manure management, odor management, agricultural E&S and CAFO permitting — written, submitted and, just as importantly, amended when the operation changes.
Which plan do I need? →
02 — Why it matters
Why it matters that we do both.
A new manure storage is a building project and a compliance project at the same time. Get them out of step and the consequences are expensive:
- The odor management plan has to be approved before construction — so siting is settled long before the concrete is ordered.
- New storage almost always needs a nutrient management plan amendment, because capacity and handling assumptions change.
- The earth disturbance around the structure decides whether Chapter 102 requires a written E&S plan or full NPDES coverage — measured on what you grade, not on the building.
- Expanded animal numbers can move an operation across a threshold it wasn't over before, changing which program it sits under.
When one office holds the plans and draws the building, those four things are checked against each other as a matter of course. When they're split, they're checked when somebody notices.
03 — Also on the farm
Putting an underused building to work.
A shop leased to a contractor, equipment storage rented out, a barn turned into an event venue or retail. It can be a sound move — and it has more moving parts than people expect.
The catch is that a change of use frequently triggers municipal land development review even when nothing is being constructed — parking, access, stormwater and sometimes sewage obligations all change with the use. It can also bring building-code requirements the structure never had to meet as a farm building, and it can touch your nutrient management plan, your agricultural security area status and your Clean & Green enrollment.
Because we hold both sides of that work, scoping looks at the whole picture rather than half of it. If it isn't worth doing, we'll say so.
Building something? Let's talk.
Tell us about it and we’ll outline the permits it needs and what work like this generally runs.