Manure/Environment
Forum to highlight preventing farm accidents, injuries
Workers and families in farm-related businesses and other agricultural occupations can learn how to make their farms safer at the Agricultural Safety and Health Forum.
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Report says Calif. GHG reduction nearly impossible
Heather Youngs, Ph.D., bioenergy analysis fellow at University of California, Berkley, reports on a two-year panel study of California’s energy system with a look to the year 2050 and a legislative requirement for greenhouse gas emission to be 80 percent below 1990 levels.
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Prairie Swine Centre releases annual research report
The Prairie Swine Centre, located near Saskatoon, has just released the 2011 edition of the Annual Research Report which provides insight into a wide range of industry challenges and opportunities.
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Iowa CAFO meeting set for Aug. 30
Discussions will be held on Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) inspection program for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), winter feeding areas, aerial overflights, medium-sized CAFOs, nutrient management plans and manure storage.
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Nutrient loss, water quality focus of Farm Science Review
Agriculture, nutrient loss, water quality, and the Maumee watershed will be a discussion topic at Ohio State University's 2012 Farm Science Review, set for Sept. 18.
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Ohio State to hold training course on anaerobic digestion
Ohio State University will hold a first-of-its-kind training course on anaerobic digestion, a waste-management process that livestock farms and wastewater plants are increasingly using to produce biogas, a type of renewable fuel.
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Report evaluates animal agriculture’s water and land use
A new Issue Paper from the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), titled "Water and Land Issues Associated with Animal Agriculture: A U.S. Perspective," examines the livestock, land and water issues raised by the United Nations.
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Water pollution lawsuit filed against North Carolina hog farm
The lawsuit asserts that Taylor Finishing, Inc, Trenton, NC, and its owner are in violation of the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, by illegally disposing of animal waste.
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EPA removes CAFO reporting requirements
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has eliminated the requirement that a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) owner or operator that “proposes to discharge” must apply for a permit, according to the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC).
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Ohio company paves future of swine manure asphalt
Drivers on many of the nation’s paved highways and byways may soon have an unlikely source to thank for those smooth roads – swine manure.
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Use caution when applying liquid manure to dry fields
Commercial manure applicators need to be extra cautious applying liquid manure to dry farm fields this summer.
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