Greenhouse gas emission reduction and environmental quality improvement from implementation of aerobic waste treatment systems in swine farms
January 1, 2008By Vanotti
Trading of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions is an attractive approach to help producers implement cleaner treatment technologies to replace current anaerobic lagoons. Our objectives were to...
Effect of the presence of the antimicrobial tylosin in swine waste on anaerobic treatment
January 1, 2008
An anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR), seeded with a biomass inoculum that
previously had not been exposed to the macrolide antimicrobial tylosin (mixture of Tylosin
A, B, C, and D), was...
Evaluating phosphorus loading from repeated manure applications to two Saskatchewan soils
January 1, 2008
An understanding of the impact of repeated manure additions on soil phosphorus (P) is needed to determine appropriate manure application rates for prairie soils and manure sources. The objective of...
Reuse of concentrated animal feeding operation wastewater on agricultural lands
January 1, 2008
Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) generate large volumes of manure and manure contaminated wash and run-off water. When applied to land at agronomic rates, CAFO wastewater has the...
ELISA for Sulfonamides and Its Application for Screening in Water Contamination
January 1, 2008By W. SHELVER
Two enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) were tested for their suitability for detecting sulfonamides in wastewater from various stages in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), the river into...
Air pollution and odor in communities near industrial swine operations
January 1, 2008
BACKGROUND: Odors can affect health and quality of life. Industrialized animal agriculture creates odorant compounds that are components of a mixture of agents that could trigger symptoms reported by...
Nitrogen mass balance in fields irrigated with liquid swine
January 1, 2008By S. C. Whalen
Over the past 15-years, swine-producing
confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) have
proliferated throughout the Southeastern United
States, particularly in North Carolina. Waste at...
Environment - Air
Particulates, Ammonium Nitrate, and Ammonium Sulfate: Effects on Air Quality in Rural Iowa
December 26, 2007By R. L. Pfeiffer
Air quality has many components, one of which is PM2.5 and ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate are reported to be two of the major components. Swine confinement facilities generate significant...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Risk Assessment for Salmonella spp. in Cooked Pork
December 4, 2007By Arthur Miller
The purpose of this research was to develop a retail-to-table risk assessment to evaluate the likelihood of developing salmonellosis from consumption of a serving of enhanced or un-enhanced pork...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Development of Antibiotic Usage Information in Swine
November 2, 2007By John Deen
There exists global concern about the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria and their potential relationship to antimicrobial use in food animal production. Despite this, the U.S....