Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Community
Connecting agri-professionals advancing environmental stewardship in animal agriculture.
This webcast gives the latest information on the effectiveness and value of Vegetative Environmental Buffers, especially as an approach to managing air emissions from animal production facilities. This presentation was originally broadcast on February 26, 2010. More… Continue reading “Mitigating Air Emissions with Vegetative Environmental Buffers”
The first “road trip” for the webcast series. These were webcast live from the 2010 National Water Quality Conference Meeting. The presentations include: increasing on-farm composting capacity, horse farm best management practices, and nutrient losses from poultry litter stockpiles. This was originally broadcast on February 24, 2010. More… Continue reading “Water Quality Grab Bag: Composting, Horse Farm Manure Management, Nutrient Losses from Litter Stockpiles”
Cover crops are being promoted as a way to keep manure nutrients from leaching or running off during ‘idle’ months in the field. Coupling manure application and cover crops: Can it work and what are the benefits? This presentation was originally broadcast on January 15, 2010. More… Continue reading “Manure Nutrients, Cover Crops, and Slurry Seeding”