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LPES Curriculum

Mission

The Livestock and Poultry Environmental Stewardship (LPES) project will deliver a national curriculum and supporting educational tools to U.S. livestock and poultry industry advisors, who in turn, will help producers acquire certification and/or achieve environmentally sustainable production systems. Producers will also benefit directly from the information and assessment tools that the curriculum provides.

Targeted Uses

• Mandated environmental certification programs for producers and advisors
• Voluntary Cooperative Extension programs for producer education programs
• Pro-active educational programs for commodity associations
• Clientele training for NRCS EQIP and related stewardship programs
• Training for industry employees and contract growers

Curriculum Description

The educational materials developed for the LPES. Curriculum, a nationally developed and regionally piloted core curriculum, include 26 lessons grouped into six modules; environmental stewardship and/or regulatory compliance assessment tools for most lessons; and PowerPoint presentations for each lesson.

This material is based upon work supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center; and the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, under Cooperative Agreement Number 97-EXCA-3-0642.

This project was funded with a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It was developed by the following team of land-grant university, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) staff with assistance from MidWest Plan Service (MWPS) and guidance from the EPA's National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center (Ag Center).

Project Leaders

Rick Koelsch, University of Nebraska
Frank Humenik, North Carolina State University
Project Manager: Diane Huntrods, MWPS, Iowa State University

Author Team

Brent Auvermann, Texas A&M
Jose Bicudo, University of Kentucky
Galen Erickson, University of Nebraska
Charles Fulhage, University of Missouri
Rick Grant, University of Nebraska
Joe Harner, Kansas State University
John Hoehne, University of Missouri (retired)
Frank Humenik, North Carolina State University
Larry Jacobson, University of Minnesota
Rick Koelsch, University of Nebraska
Jeff Lorimor, Iowa State University
Todd Milton, Formerly of the University of Nebraska
Pat Murphy, Kansas State University
Paul Patterson, Pennsylvania State University
David Schmidt, University of Minnesota
Karl Shaffer, North Carolina State University
Andrew Sharpley, USDA-ARS
Ron Sheffield, University of Idaho
Don Stettler, USDA-NRCS (retired)
Stanley (Lee) Telega, Cornell University
Eric van Heugten, North Carolina State University
Theo van Kempen, North Carolina State University

Review and Pilot Team

Gary Jackson, University of Wisconsin
Ted Funk, University of Illinois
Carol Galloway, EPA Ag Center
Mohammed Ibrahim, North Carolina A&T State Univ.
Barry Kintzer, USDA-NRCS
Rick Koelsch, University of Nebraska
Deanne Meyer, Univ. of California-Davis
Mark Risse, University of Georgia
Peter Wright, Cornell University

Access Team

Don Jones, Purdue University
Jack Moore, MWPS, Iowa State University
Ginah Mortensen, EPA Ag Center