nrcs manure related conservation innovation grants

NRCS Manure Related CIGs

Glenn H. CarpenterNational Leader Animal Husbandry

April 4, 2013

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The ancient Egyptians hatched eggs in compost piles.

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Greeks and Romans believed that manure from a rooster spread over the body would protect from attack by lions and panthers.

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Pliny the Elder (first century AD) wrote of the belief that hens manure massaged into the scalp would cure baldness.

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John Adams Compost"20 loads of sea weed, ….and 20 Loads of Marsh Mud, and what dead ashes I can get from the Potash Works and what Dung I can get from Boston, and …..." This mixture, combined with livestock waste, weeds, and kitchen scraps“ in the Course of a Year would make a great Quantity of Choice manure. "

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Jefferson and manure•In 1793, Thomas Jefferson wrote:

"We will try this winter to cover our garden with a heavy coating of manure. When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance, and of the best quality.”

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George Washington and Manure•In June 1785 GW had asked a friend to help him find a farm manager in England who knew how to …… above all, Midas like… convert every thing he touches into manure, as the first transmutation towards Gold"

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Washington’s composter•In 1787 Washington gave detailed directions for constructing his manure “repository”:

“When you go about the repository for the compost ... if the bottom should not be of good clay, put the clay there and ram it well before you pave it, to prevent the liquid manure from sinking, and thereby being lost.”

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Washington’s composter•He also directed that the manure pit have masonry sides and that the bottom was to be paved with cobble stones. The repository was a long, narrow building (31x12-ft in dimension) supported by posts on a brick foundation on three sides and by posts set directly into the ground on the fourth.

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Washington’s and NRCS’ composters

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Gathering Buffalo Chips

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Summary of Conservation Innovation Grants since 2004:

Conservation Innovation Grants

2002 Farm Bill

Up to 10 percent of EQIP

Demonstration and technology transfer

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Almost 500 CIGs since 2004

181.7 Million dollars total

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122 Animal Related Grants

24.7 percent of grants have been animal related$47.12 million dollars for animal related grants26 percent of funds went to animal related grants

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96 manure related grants

19.5 percent of grants have been manure related

$39.6 million dollars for manure related grants

22 percent of funds went to manure related grants.

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Manure related CIGs

Varying degrees of success for a number of reasons•Lack of planning•Lack of funding (match)•Lack of understanding of the grant

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Manure related CIGs

Projects have dealt with such technologies as anaerobic digesters; community digesters; environmental credit trading; lagoon management; manure to energy generation; alternative litter sources, storage, and handling; and pathogen, odor, and emissions mitigation, to name just a few.

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Successful manure related CIG

Entity Title

Outcome

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2004 successful manure related CIG

Alabama Mountains, Rivers and Valleys RC&D, Inc.

On-Farm Demonstrations of Low Cost Alternatives for Temporary Litter Facilities

Steel truss buildings showed an attractive cost-benefit ratio and good farmer acceptance. Long-term performance has not been evaluated – a potential problem in a caustic environment.

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University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.

Using cropping alternatives to improve water quality in high nutrient status farms

Identified a localized crop (Pearl Millet) that could be grown to utilize soil phosphorus and improve associated water quality. Pearl Millet is an acceptable feed for poultry.

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Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection

Wisconsin's Dairy and Livestock Air Emission/Odor Project

Evaluated various BMPs. Provided NRCS with a basis for recommending certain practices for mitigating odors, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide from dairies.

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Iowa Cattleman's Association

Vegetative Treatment System Technology Implementation

Looked at VTAs under varying situations. Resulted in tech notes on the siting, design, and management of VTAs, and a collaborative report on Vegetative Treatment Systems for open feedlot runoff. Found at: www.heartlandwq.iastate.edu /ManureManagement/AlternativeTech/vtsguidance

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Virginia Tech Precision Feeding to Reduce Nutrient Losses from VA Dairy Farms

Significant educational programming was completed as part of this project. Worked directly with over 200 farmers. Developed incentive system. A total of 3 national webcasts (webinars), 8 conference presentations, 4 peer-reviewed extension publications, 5 newsletters, and 2 abstracts were presented to farmers and their advisors.

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Washington State University

Development and Integration of a National Feed Management Education Program and Assessment Tools into a CNMP

Educational tools on feed management. Feed management fact sheets. Training of TSPs for the feed management CNMP. Creation of a Feed Nutrient management tool. Fact sheets are available on WSU dairy nutrient management page, or on LPES.

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Penn State University

Controlling Odor and Nutrient Losses to Surface Runoff, Groundwater and Air with New and Conventional Manure Injection Technologies on No-Till and Sod Soils

This project gave NRCS a scientific basis to recommend certain manure application practices for reducing nutrient losses to water and air in the Chesapeake Bay area.

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Coaltec Energy USA, Inc.

Gasification of Poultry Litter to Produce Bio-Energy for Heat

Learned that proper management and preparation of the gasifier fuel is essential. Proper storage of litter, the addition of wood or other material to manage the moisture content of the litter, and changes to the feed system to provide a more consistent fuel to the gasifier can be very beneficial to this system.

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Cayuga County SWCD

Cayuga County Environmental Regional Digester

This project demonstrated the value of mesophyllic digester design to community digesters that co-digest other products along with dairy waste. It showed the value of large scale digesters and large scale digestion.

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Environmental Credit Group

Providing Carbon Credit Incentives for the Adoption of Lagoon Covers on Hog Farms in NC and Dairies in NY

This project found that the possibility of covering lagoons to flare methane is entirely possible, but the current market price and condition for greenhouse gas credits was not found to be sufficient to stimulate farmers to adopt this technology.

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Brinson Farms Methane Capture on Broiler Poultry Farm for Renewable Energy and Environmental Protection

This project was successful from the standpoint of methane production and energy generation from broiler litter, but the need to add water to bring the litter from approximately 30 to over 90 percent moisture and the associated problems with handling the high moisture digestate leaves questions unanswered.

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Decision aid tool to enhance adoption of feed management 592 practice standard feed nutrient management planning economics FNMP

WSU refined the FNMP$ tool, and developed case studies. Develop and distribute a "Users Guide" on the Decision Aid Tool to NRCS. Conduct then quantify the results of training workshops. Publish fact sheet on the newly developed Assessment Tool with cost savings and feed management strategies at the whole farm scale.

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2010 manure related CIGs

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Gypsum Curtains: Reducing soluble phosphorous (P) losses from P-saturated soils on poultry operations

Western United Dairymen

Water balance approach for seepage measurements from liquid dairy manure storage ponds

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WNC CommunitiesInnovative composting for western North Carolina livestock facility

Fermentation Experts, Inc.

Fermented liquid feeding to reduce phosphorous in swine manure

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The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College

Digging Deeper: New and Innovative Tools to Improve Nutrient Management of Livestock and Specialty Crop Farms


An integrated nutrient recovery, Class-A fiber production process, and H2S scrubbing system that works in series with dairy manure anaerobic digesters—farm-scale demonstration on two Washington State

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Impact of Anaerobic Digestion on Air Quality in a Community Anaerobic Digester

The Pennsylvania State University

Without Carrot or Stick: Promoting BMPs on Small Dairy Farms

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Great Lakes Ag Energy, LLC

Use of a constructed wetland and a mass culture of attached, filamentous algae to compliment methane-digester technology in managing dairy-farm phosphorus runoff

NC State UniversityManure Belt Collection System and Energy Recovery System

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National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Using excess manure to generate farm income in the Chesapeake’s phosphorus hotspots

AviHome, LLC.

Commercial demonstration of the Reduction of Ammonia Production and other environmental Benefits in Poultry Houses through use of a Plenum Flooring System

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Cornell University

Demonstration and Validation of vermicompost based fertilizers and substrates in greenhouse production as an organic nutrient source that returns animal waste to plant production while reducing nutrient leaching to the environment

Rodale InstituteNutrient management in organic no-till systems

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University of IdahoDemonstration and evaluation of alternative manure management techniques in Southern Idaho

University of Kentucky Research Foundation

Compost bedded pack barn housing system for dairy manure storage/treatment

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Greentrust Alliance, Inc.

Application of Innovative Bioremediation technology to N/P Removal Associated with Agricultural Operations

Quasar Energy Group, LLC

Anaerobic Digester Facility to process livestock waste and divert nutrients from the watershed

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Penn. State University

Use of stackable material anaerobic digester for combined heat and power generation, manure odor reduction and food waste energy recovery

Eastern Shore RC&D

On Farm demonstration of energy generation and phosphorus recycling as an alternative to land application of poultry litter on the DelMarVA

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Summary

Through the use of a number of conservation practice technologies NRCS can help farmers and ranchers handle manure and other waste products in such a way that there is no negative impact on water or air quality.

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Summary

Through the CIG program, NRCS can help bring new technologies to the forefront by providing a means of technology transfer, either directly to industry, or through inclusion of the new technology in NRCS’ conservation practice standards.

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Summary

For more information about CIG go to the CIG webpage at: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/ main/national/programs/financial/cig/

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Questions?

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References•Smith, Page, The Chicken Book, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975)•John Adams, Diary and Autobiography of Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield (Cambridge, Mass.. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961), 1:249•George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. •http://www.monticello.org/grounds/veg_nineteenth.html

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