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Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Last Updated: May 03, 2013

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This site is designed for Extension Educators, dairy, beef, swine, broiler, layer, and turkey farmers and ranchers as well as their advisors to discover the latest information about the effects of changing weather patterns and how to best manage these new risks.  We hope to equip you with communication strategies, climate science, carbon footprints and sources of greenhouse gases, opportunities for improving carbon efficiency and sequestration, and updates on regulation and carbon markets.

Our goals:

  • Assist producers in adapting production systems to maintain animal health and performance in the face of changing climatic conditions
  • Provide science-based information to make decisions that result in reduced heat-trapping gas emissions while providing abundant meat, milk, eggs and other animal products

What's new!

Join us for the LPE webinar: Marin Carbon Project

Highlights from the Denver Climate Change Symposium

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOPICS TO DISCOVER:

Climate Impacts: The Impacts of Temperature and Humidity on Animal Production 

  • How is Animal Agriculture Impacted?

Adapting to Changes: Management and Technology Options for Dealing with Weather Trends

Climate Science: The Natural and Human-caused Forces that Govern Climate Change

Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • How can Producers be part of the Solution?

Regulations (National and Regional) Related to Carbon Emissions and Mitigation

  • Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Communicating: Strategies for Extension Educators in Discussing Climate Change

  • What are Successful Communication Strategies for Educators?

Climate Change: Global, National and Regional

Region Specific Resources:

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Southwest

Midwest

Southeast

Northeast

 

Contact Us

 

This project was supported by Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant No. 2011-67003-30206 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

 

Authors: Crystal Powers, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Reviewers: Rick Stowell, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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