Cattle Feedyard Air Quality
Initiative
A synopsis of progress and impacts from
a CSREES-sponsored cattle feedyard air quality
initiative is available
online. This federal agricultural air
quality initiative, involving more than 20
scientists and engineers representing five
agencies or universities in Texas and Kansas,
is making significant progress on characterizing
air emissions from open-feedyards and dairies
in the southern Great Plains. This group
is also studying cost-effective dust abatement
technologies for reducing emissions and determining
the effect of feedyard dust on animal health
and productivity.
This project is an agricultural research
partnership of the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, Texas Cooperative Extension, West
Texas A&M University, Kansas State University,
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service,
and funded by CSREES.
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