Released February 3, 2009
Learn how to conserve more of the valuable nitrogen from cattle feed lots and confinement facilities at a Feb. 20 eXtension webcast. Extension experts from Michigan State University and the University of Nebraska will explain strategies to conserve nitrogen for beneficial reuse and conservation and feeding strategies that allow more nitrogen to be retained in stored manure. The free educational webcast is from the Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center of eXtension.
Webcast Speakers
Wendy Powers, professor and environmental stewardship director for animal agriculture at Michigan State, works with a whole-systems approach to environmental accountability. Her research interests include diet modification as a mitigation strategy for odor and gaseous emissions, as well as developing post-excretion strategies to reduce the environmental impact of livestock production.
Galen Erickson, associate professor and beef feedlot extension specialist at Nebraska, focuses on environment-nutrition interactions and the nutritional effects on pathogen excretion.
The Friday, Feb. 20 session begins at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The webcast meeting room opens 15 minutes before the start time. Go to http://www.extension.org/wiki/Live_Webcast_Information to view.
Monthly webcasts are hosted by the Livestock and Poultry Environmental (LPE) Learning Center, an information resource developed by more than 150 experts from land-grant universities, agencies and other organizations. The center is part of the national eXtension interactive Web resource customized with links to local Cooperative Extension Web sites.
LPE Learning Center
The center advocates that individuals involved in public policy issues, animal production and delivery of technical services for animal producers should have on-demand access to the nation's best science-based resources. Articles about animal manure management are at http://www.extension.org/animal+manure+management.
eXtension is an educational partnership helping Americans improve their lives with access to timely, objective, research-based information and educational opportunities. The eXtension site is http://www.extension.org. Land-grant universities were founded on the ideals that higher education should be accessible to all, that colleges should teach liberal and practical subjects and share knowledge with people throughout their states.
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Contacts: Wendy Powers, Michigan State University, (517) 432-3849, wpowers@msu.edu
Galen Erickson, University of Nebraska, (402) 472-6402, gerickson4@unl.edu
Jill Heemstra, University of Nebraska, (402) 748-3909, jheemstra@unl.edu
Lynette Spicer, Iowa State University, (515) 294-1327, lspicer@iastate.edu
