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Last Updated: February 09, 2010 Related resource areas: Animal Manure Management

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Webcast Schedule: Livestock and Poultry Environmental Management

Date Topic/Presenters Description
February 24, 2010 (noon eastern) Greg Binford
Nutrient Losses when Storing Poultry Litter in the Field
Darryl Finnigan
Increasing the Adoption of BMPs on Horse Farms in Ontario
Gregory Evanylo
Building On-Farm Composting Capacity to Prevent Pollution
Live from the National Water Quality Meetings! We take our webcast series on the road with our first broadcast on several manure management related presentations at the USDA NIFA National Water Quality meetings in Hilton Head, South Carolina. More...
February 26, 2010 Mitigating Air Emissions with Vegetative Environmental Buffers Shelterbelts and Windbreaks do more than enhance the aesthetics of a farm operation, they also can improve air quality. More...
March 19, 2010 Precision Phosphorus Feeding of the Dairy Cow This webcast highlights the progress to date of an integrated project to increase the adoption of “Precision Phosphorus Feeding” on dairy farms. The overall goal is to refine the assessment of Phosphorus (P) supplied through feedstuffs and animal P requirements so that P supplied through feed and P requirements of the animal are more accurately aligned. More...
April 16, 2010 Air quality topic TBA Ammonia emissions from poultry operations in the Chesapeake Bay area are being identified as a possible source of nitrogen contamination of water. What are the links and the implications for producers?
May 14, 2010 Composting animal mortalities Multiple species will be covered, but there will be an emphasis on in-house composting of poultry mortalities

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