Animal Feeding Operations: Environmental Quality, Fluxes, Impacts, and Monitoring at the Local, Farm, and Watershed Scale

The USGS in partnership with the University of California's Kearney Agricultural Center and U.S. Department of Agriculture's, National Soil Tilth Laboratory sponsored a special session on "Animal Feeding Operations: Environmental Quality, Fluxes, Impacts, and Monitoring at the Local, Farm, and Watershed Scale" at the American Geophysical Union's Spring 2000 Meeting, Washington, DC, May 30 - June 3, 2000. The objective of the session was to present information on the impact of AFOs on streams and ground water, water-quality monitoring strategies for AFOs, and assessments of AFO management practices. The information presented at the session will help promote a solid scientific understanding of the environmental processes affecting the quality of air, surface water, soil, and ground water that can be used to develop low impact management solutions for AFOs.

Session Information

• Session Agenda
  
• Spring Meeting Session Descriptions
  
• General Meeting Information
  

USGS Presentations at the Session

• Phosphorus Geochemistry in Popes Creek, VA, and in the Pocomoke River, MD: Two Watersheds with Different Land Management Practices in the Chesapeake Bay Basin: Simon, N.S., and Isbister, J.
  
• Environmental Fate and Transport of Arsenical Feed Amendments for Animal Agriculture: Miller, C.V., Hancock, T.C., and Denver J.M.
  

Conveners

• Thomas Harter, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, Kearney Agricultural Center
  
• Franceska Wilde, U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Water Quality
  
• Jerry Hatfield, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Soil Tilth Laboratory
  

More Information on Agricultural Water-Quality Issues

• Topical Information on Agricultural Chemicals, Toxics Program
  
• Agricultural Chemicals in the Upper Midwest, Toxics Program Investigation
  
• Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
  

 

 

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