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Helping livestock and poultry producers understand
the CAFO regulations that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) released in 2003 will be a challenge for service agencies,
Cooperative Extension personnel, and commodity associations during
the next few years. The objective of this website is to provide
resources that can help answer questions about the federal CAFO
regulations. Because of the variation among states in the implementation
of these federal rules, your state's environmental agency, Cooperative
Extension program, or livestock commodity association may be able
to provide additional information specific to your own state.
What are the CAFO Fact Sheets?
The CAFO Fact Sheets are a collection of 24 publications that address
questions that educators and producers are most likely to have about
what the CAFO regulations mean, how they will affect livestock and
poultry production facilities, and what producers must do to comply
with the regulations.
How do I get the Fact Sheets?
The CAFO Fact Sheets are available as MS Word files and PowerPoint
slide presentations that you can download from the link below. For
a one-time fee of $50, you may download the files and modify them
to fit local, state, and regional needs. Follow the process from
the link below to an order and download page. A credit card will
be necessary to purchase the Fact Sheets from the website. For other
information about purchasing access to the Word files, call MWPS
at 800-562-3618.
By downloading and modifying the Word files and the PowerPoint
presentations, you will be able to add information such as state
contacts or implementation procedures and interpretations specific
to your state. For the one-time fee, you will have continuing, unlimited
access to the site on which the Word files and slide presentations
are located. Commodity groups, service agencies, and individual
Cooperative Extension programs are invited to develop and share
ownership of modified Word versions and modified PowerPoint presentations
of the Fact Sheets by adding their organization's logo and by recognizing
the authors and other contributors to the modified versions. Sometime
in the future, users of the Word files and PowerPoint slide presentations
will be contacted for information about how they modified and used
the original publications.
The CAFO Fact Sheets are accessible in final form as PDF files
from the links below. Access to the Fact Sheets in PDF format is
free. Clicking on one of the links below will take you to specific
fact sheets related to the general topic in the link. You will need
a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer to read these files.
It is available free from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
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Who may use these materials?
Livestock and poultry producers along with educators providing
information to producers are encouraged to access and use this information.
Producers may find the free PDF files to be the more useful format
and may choose to read the files on the site, print them from the
site, or download them for future reference.
Those involved in producer and advisor education activities should
find the PDF files, the Word files, and the PowerPoint slide presentations
useful. Educators may decide to preview the Fact Sheets in PDF format
and then purchase and download the easily modified Word files and
PowerPoint presentations to be copied and customized for their own
specific educational purposes.
Who prepared these materials?
A team of 15 land-grant university faculty and NRCS staff have
collaborated to develop the Fact Sheets and to answer what they
believe will be the most frequently asked questions about the 2003
CAFO regulations. The group that developed these sheets and the
entire LPES Curriculum team are committed to sharing these educational
resources on environmental topics related to animal production nationwide.
The EPA Ag Center also has played a key role in ensuring the compatibility
of these answers with the final CAFO rules. Al Sutton, Purdue University;
Brent Auvermann, Texas A&M University; Rick Koelsch, University
of Nebraska; and Frank Humenik, North Carolina State University,
have provided leadership for developing the CAFO Fact Sheets.
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