Animal Waste Resource Trading Opportunities

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The Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center , a National Facilitation Project of the CSREES 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 CSREES 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 CSREES and participating extension services.

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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.