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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.
Animal Waste Resource Trading Opportunities
Often, more manure is generated at farms or livestock/poultry and dairy production operations than can be safely applied to the soil immediately surrounding an individual facility. Programs funded by USDA NIFA and at Land Grant Colleges and Universities are working to put together producers of manure with those in need of manure in order to best utilize this resource and prevent contamination of surface or ground water.
Examples:
- Colorado
Manure Marketplace , Colorado State University Cooperative Extension
Service
- Michigan
Manure Resource Network , Michigan State University Extension
- Oklahoma
Litter Market , Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma Cooperative
Extension Service
- Texas: Marketing Dairy Compost Project of
Texas Water Inst. and Texas Cooperative Extension.
- Livestock
Marketing Information Center has members from 22 state
Extension services. Partial funding from
USDA NIFA and participating extension services.
The intent of this page is not to catalogue all activities but rather to indicate the types of extension activities in the Animal Waste Management theme across the U.S.
