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Swine manure treatment
Swine manure (SM) is a plentiful and readily available farm waste that is commonly managed using traditional disposal methods, including agricultural application, lagoon storage, anaerobic digestion or direct incineration.
If mishandled, however, swine manure can contaminate surface and ground waters. Proper storage, handling and application of manure from pork production operations can protect water resources and increase profits for animal and crop enterprises.
Pork producers select a manure handling system based on factors such as location, the size, type and use of their cropland, the number of animals, and the type of animal housing. Many options relate to the type of housing system - pasture, dry lot, and enclosed.
With all systems, divert rain and snowmelt runoff away from the manure handling system. Install gutters to direct roof runoff to a ditch or other diversion. Keep uncontaminated surface water away from lots, settling facilities, infiltration channels, outdoor storages, and animal traffic lanes. Channel contaminated lot runoff to adequate treatment, storage, and application systems.
A University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension workshop will help producers learn the value of their livestock's manure. The informational workshop on manure merchandising March 29 begins with 12:30 p.m. registration and concludes at 4 p.m. at the Agricultural Research and Development Center near Mead.
In addition to the value of manure, the workshop will focus on new Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality regulations regarding manure transfers, said Phil Steinkamp, Nebraska's...
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Research conducted at the Prairie Swine Centre has shown a few simple drinker adjustments can dramatically reduce the volumes of water wasted by pigs as they drink.
The water that comes into a barn through the drinker system accounts for an estimated 60 to 70 of the total water used by the pigs in a room.
Research Scientist in Applied Ethology Dr. Harold Gonyou says a series of studies on how pigs waste water has shown adjusting the height of the drinkers as the pigs grow and, in most...
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Technological advances have enabled a high-tech company in Berkshire to launch a revolutionary system which, it claims, has the potential to yield a 30 per cent improvement in performance on pig units and save an average unit £10,000 a year.
A new method of 'real time' monitoring, known as the Dicam Monitoring Service, developed by FarmEx will enable farmers to scrutinise key production factors - such as water and feed consumption, temperature and energy use. These can then be analysed and...
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Scientists at the Prairie Swine Centre are recommending a combination of feeding strategies designed to help reduce the levels of excess phosphorus excreted by pigs into the environment.
Because the phosphorus contained in grain is largely tied up in the form of phytate phosphorus and is unavailable to the animal, producers have traditionally supplemented diets with inorganic forms of phosphorus.
Research Assistant Dr. Denise Beaulieu says the overformulation of phosphorus in diets not...
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A University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension workshop will help producers learn the value of their livestock's manure.
The informational workshop on manure merchandising March 29 begins with 12:30 p.m. registration and concludes at 4 p.m. at the Agricultural Research and Development Center near Mead.
In addition to the value of manure, the workshop will focus on new Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality regulations regarding manure transfers, said Phil Steinkamp, Nebraska's...
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Transgenic plants and animals present us with an uncomfortable paradox. While they may provide very real cost benefits to farmers and environmental benefits for all, they also pose unknowable risks. Whether we support the use of genetically modified animals or not, research is moving ahead. In the last few years, scientists at Ontario's University of Guelph have created Enviropigs™, a line of transgenic pigs containing both mouse and bacterial chromosomes; the pigs cost less to feed and produce...
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Thousands of factory farms nationwide are expected to sign up for a new Environmental Protection Agency compliance program, but the agency will pick only about 30 to monitor levels of gases such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide.
The EPA program allows owners of farms that house thousands of hogs, chickens or dairy cattle to avoid fines for violating the Clean Air Act by paying a civil penalty up front and volunteering to collect air quality data over a two-year period. They also agree to...
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This week’s mixed decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York on the 2003 Clean Water Act rule applicable to livestock producers, both helps and hurts pork producers’ efforts to secure sound, sensible environmental regulations that protect water quality and allow animal agriculture to thrive in this country , said the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC).
“Parts of this ruling tell pork producers if you are following standard, good quality manure handling...
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A shorter closed period, a more flexible derogation from the current 170 kg N/ha limit and fewer rules for moving slurry between holdings. These were the initial comments from William McCrea MLA on the latest proposed Nitrates Action Programme.
Commenting on the latest proposals Mr McCrea said, "In the latest proposals there is little recognition for the longer grass growing season in Northern Ireland compared to other regions in Europe. We will be lobbying to try and get the closed period...
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The term 'consultation' really is a bit of a misnomer in the context of the proposed Nitrates Action Programme issued jointly by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of the Envionment on Monday.
The plain fact is that the proposals contained within the document represent the very minimum which the European Commission is likely to accept with regard to the bedding down of an acceptable water protection policy in Northern Ireland.
In reality, the programme,...
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As most pig producers are aware, from this June slurry will be defined as waste - and producers who have more of it than they need will have to ask for permission before they can send it to other farms.
"It's a nonsense," declares NPA chairman Stewart Houston, who will be pressing Defra to agree a generic exemption for the pig sector. In a recent meeting with food and farming minister Lord Whitty he questioned the rationale behind defining an economically important organic product as...
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Canada's pork industry expects to have a protocol in place by spring seeding to help swine producers calculate the number of greenhouse gas reduction credits their farms could be eligible to trade.
A pork technical working group, chaired by Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, began developing a systems based greenhouse gas quantification protocol last April.
Canadian Pork Council Representative Cedric MacLeod says a framework is needed to determine the number of carbon...
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The Netherlands' animal feed industry is at the centre of a new scandal, with a police report alleging that hazardous waste products are being used on a large scale in the production of animal fodder.
The report speaks of a 'structural' and 'organised' practice. The 'Wakker Dier' (literally: alert animal) organisation, a charity which works to improve conditions for animals in the intensive livestock industry, recently published the report on its website. Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner...
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The Canadian Pork Council says Canada needs an internationally recognized carbon credit trading system and the federal regulations that will make it work to encourage the adoption of new environmental technologies on the farm.
As part of its Kyoto commitment, Canada is striving to encourage reduced greenhouse gas emissions and is in the process of developing a structure that will allow those who do so to be rewarded financially.
CPC Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Program Coordinator Cedric...
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Be it cow, chicken, horse or pig, waste management in the farming and agriculture community has always presented a challenge. Three major integrated manure management systems are paving the way for waste management in Western Canada by turning manure into usable by-products, such as methane, biogas and thermal energy.
"We have never looked at manure as an opportunity," Gordon Wells of Tradex AgriSystems said at the 2005 Banff Pork Seminar. "One of the key messages that must be received is...
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The University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Extension Service have partnered with Minnesota state agencies on a series of manure application workshops.
The sessions will provide participants with both practical and scientific information regarding the use of manure in crop production, and water quality issues related to manure application.
Workshops are designed specifically for those involved in writing or reviewing manure management plans or integrating manure nutrients...
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The President and CEO of Clear-Green Environmental says a federally regulated carbon credit trading system is needed to push the adoption of technologies that offer improved agricultural production and environmental benefits.
Saskatoon based Clear-Green Environmental provides environmentally friendly alternatives for dealing with organic wastes such as swine manure.
President and CEO Ben Voss says a greenhouse gas emissions trading system implemented by the European Union and aggressive...
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To help commercial manure applicators receive the three hours of annual continuing instruction required to maintain their manure applicator certification, Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) will conduct a Commercial Manure Applicator Satellite Downlink on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2005 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There is no fee for the workshop but applicators must register with the county extension office where they plan to attend. Currently...
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Darkening skies and a light morning drizzle blanketed the fields while combines harvested corn and tractor-trailers hauled away this year's crop. Even though he knew what was coming, Brian Watkins hopped out of his pickup truck and stepped into his office to check the weather forecast on his computer.
The radar map on his laptop showed a blob of yellow and green _ a big storm _ headed right his way. "Oh man, that doesn't look very good," he said, knowing that much of the day was going to be...
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Pig manure in Chile will keep neon lights glowing on Tokyo's Ginza in years to come. It's a grand north-south tradeoff to slow global warming: You reduce your "greenhouse gas" emissions so I don't have to cut back on mine.
In this case, a Chilean pork producer is eliminating methane fumes from animal waste and selling the resulting "credits" to Japanese and Canadian utilities, requiring that much less of them as they reduce carbon dioxide emissions at their coal- and oil-burning power...
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