The
Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center
,
a National Facilitation Project of the NIFA National Integrated Water Quality
Program, and The
National Center for Manure & Animal Waste Management
,
funded by the USDA Fund for Rural America, are important projects helping
USDA address this issue.
Extension Overview
Several
examples of extension efforts within NIFA and the Land Grant
System pertaining to Animal Waste Management are linked
below. Animal Waste Management extension activities
generally fall into these categories:
Detailed reports on the state of knowledge in these fields
and other areas of animal waste management can be found in the White
Papers
produced
by the National Center for Manure and Animal Waste Management.
The intent of these pages is not to catalogue all activities but rather to indicate the types of extension activities in this theme across the U.S.