A workshop at two locations in February discusses dealing with odor from livestock and poultry production facilities.
The Livestock Odor Workshop, offered by the SDSU Cooperative Extension Service, is designed for farmers, regulators, community members, technicians, consultants and others dealing with livestock odor concerns on a daily basis.
SDSU Extension Farm Machinery and Safety Specialist Dick Nicolai said the one-day workshop will be offered on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at Southeast Research Farm, 29974 University Road, Beresford and on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at the Codington County Extension Center, 1910 W. Kemp Ave., Watertown.
The workshop starts with 9 a.m. registration. The program begins at 9:30 a.m. and concludes at 4:15 p.m. Advance registration of $30 per person is encouraged. On-site registration is $35 per person. Registration includes lunch, coffee breaks, and workshop manual.
Send registration to: Candy Willms, Ag and Biosystems Engineering, Box 2120, SDSU, Brookings, SD 57007. Make checks payable to: SDSU 386689.
"The information presented will be invaluable to those involved in the development of regulations, zoning guidelines, or land use plans for rural South Dakota and others who have a general interest in livestock and poultry odors," Nicolai said.
The one-day workshop is designed to give participants an understanding of the factors affecting livestock and poultry air emissions (odor, dust, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, etc.); health issues related to air emissions; federal and state regulatory concerns regarding these emissions; and methods for addressing odor concerns at the local level. Specialists will discuss siting agricultural facilities using OFFSET (Odor From Feedlots Setback Estimation Tool) and FOOTPRINT. The workshop tells how to develop odor management plans.
Other topics include management strategies and technologies for controlling odor and other air emissions from buildings and manure storages. Discussion will focus on the basic principles of air emissions control including dispersion, capture and treat, and reducing generation through chemical and biological means. Specialists will compare the economics of these systems. They'll present several examples of current field scale systems along with the design parameters for these systems.
