Comment: IPPC - A good idea gone wrong
By Digby Scott, NPA - 'Unless the Environment Agency has a major rethink about the way it implements IPPC, the British pig industry, which has recently started to expand again after five years in the doldrums, will find it is critically short of pigs...

Practices to Reduce Ammonia
Prepared by Wendy Powers, Iowa State University - Practices to control ammonia emissions associated with livestock production can be applied to animal housing, manure and compost storage areas, and land where manure is applied. This document provides...

Converting manure into crude oil
By Yuanhui Zhang, Kim Ocfemia, and Malia Appleford, University of Illinois - Industrial-scale farming has a serious waste problem, but new technology can convert it into oil

Harvesting pig manure on a conveyor belt shows promising test results
By Sam Bradshaw - Better Pork Magazine - In U.S. trials, the belt housing system proved easy to operate, resulted in good animal performance, and most importantly, yielded feces of five per cent dry matter, a clean urine stream and only one kilogram of...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Swine Industry
By Claude Laguë, P.Eng., Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan / Prairie Swine Centre Inc. - There is a general agreement in the scientific community to the effect that the increased atmospheric concentrations of what is referred to as greenhouse gases (GHG)...

Turning Swine Manure Into Fertilizer: The PSF Solution
By Theo van Kempen, Swine Nutrition Specialist, North Carolina State University - Premium Standard Farms has started the construction of a "Next Generation" environmental system on one of its farm complexes, Valley View Farms in Northern Missouri. The...

Manure into Energy and Ash - New Gasification Technology
By Theo van Kempen, Swine Nutrition Specialist, North Carolina State University - Animal Science swine waste researchers at North Carolina State University has been evaluating gasification technology. The primary purpose was conversion of animal manure...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Swine Production Systems
By Claude Laguë, P.Eng., Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan / Prairie Swine Centre Inc. Sask Pork Chair in Environmental Engineering for the Pork Industry - There is a general agreement in the scientific community to the effect that the increased atmospheric...

Livestock and the Environment
By Ontario Pork - This article looks at livestock farming issues, such as manure management, odour controls and ways to improve water quality.

An update on UK incinerator rules
By Defra, Edited and Published by the NPA - If your incinerator is used only for pigs/poultry and it has a capacity of less than 50kg an hour the following rules apply. This is a summary distilled from the latest advice from Defra.

Evaluation and Demonstration of Deads Composting
By T. A. Fonstad, D. E. Meier, L. J. Ingram, University of Saskatchewan and J. Leonard, University of Alberta, published by Prairie Swine Centre - The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether composting mortalities is a viable solution for...

Manure to Energy - The Utah project
By Theo van Kempen, Swine Nutrition Specialist, North Carolina State University - At the 2003 Banff Pork Seminar, Smithfield Foods announced it would invest $20 million in a new environmental initiative at its Utah swine farms. The objective of the project...

Whole Farm Water Use
By Theo van Kempen, Swine Nutrition Specialist, North Carolina State University - At the 2003 Banff Pork Seminar, Clarence Froese from DGH Engineering presented data on water usage and manure production. These data shed some light on the distribution...

Can Genetic Selection Enhance Nutrient Efficiency?
By Dr Todd See, Swine Genetics Specialist, North Carolina State University - This article looks at the role that genetic selection can have in reducing the amount of nutrients excreted in the urine and faeces of swine in a modern production facility.

Manure Management for Water Quality: Costs to Animal Feeding Operations of Applying Manure Nutrients to Land
By U.S.D.A., ERS - Nutrients from livestock and poultry manure are key sources of water pollution. Ever-growing numbers of animals per farm and per acre have increased the risk of water pollution.

Composting Hog Manure - Is it Right for Your Farm?
By Katherine E. Buckley, published by Alberta Pork in their Spring 2003 Western Hog Journal. Composting hog manure has not been considered a viable alternative manure management practice until recent years and even now the practice is thought to be more...

RE-Cycle: A profitable swine production system with zero waste
By Theo van Kempen, Swine Nutrition Specialist, North Carolina State University - Traditionally, pigs were fed household waste, while their manure was used as a fertilizer for crops. Although it may not have been realized at the time, this system resulted...

Biogas - An overview
By Brian Sexton, Alberta Agriculture, food and rural development - This article provides a brief overview of the principles and economics of producing biogas as a by-product of hog production.

Should nitrogen fertilizer be applied after injected swine manure?
By Brad Van De Woestyne, and Alfred M. Blackmer, professor, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University - Many farmers question the nitrogen (N)-supplying power of animal manure and apply fertilizer N as insurance against yield losses. Precision farming...

Reducing Risks to water resources from waste lagoons and basins
By Iowa State University - A recent study on waste lagoons and basins, by researchers at Iowa State University and the National Soil Tilth Laboratory, has found that the structures pose potential risks to Iowa's water resources and that "common sense"...

Low Cost Biofilter Construction/ Evaluation
By Various (see paper) - Biofiltration is an air pollution control technology adapted from naturally occurring processes, which use microorganisms to oxidize volatile organic compounds.

Manure Treatment from Open Feedlots: Alternative Technologies
By Jeff Lorimor and Brad Woerner, Agricultural Engineers, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, ISU - This article discusses a review of current literature to determine what level of contaminant reduction could be achieved by a series...

Putting Numbers to Manure
By Jane Messenger and Greg Vincent, Pork Magazine - Putting a value on hog manure is no easy task. The tough part for you as a pork producer is to think like a crop producer, who values manure by the acre, instead of by the gallon or ton. Then you can...