Need a Vegetative Treatment System for Your Barnyard or Lot?
Runoff from livestock barnyards and feedlots can kill fish and cause algae blooms in streams and lakes. Controlling and managing this runoff is the responsibility of every livestock pro ...
Virtual Tour of a Small Farm Vegetative Treatment System
Thison-site video tour demonstratesa Vegetative Treatment System consisting of a sloped treatment area and infiltration basin installed on a 400 head feedlot near Waco, Nebraska. ...
Vegetative Filter Strips for Open Feedlot Runoff Treatment
Vegetative Filter Strips (VFS) can be used to minimize nutrients and solids in feedlot runoff. VFS remove up to 60 to 70 percent of suspended solids and up to 70 to 80 percent of phosph ...
Vegetative Filter Strip Systems for Animal Feeding Operations
Vegetative filter strips, in conjunction with sediment basins, are recognized by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) as an effective system for controlling and reduci ...
Sustainability of a Passive Feedlot Runoff Control System Using a Vegetative Filter Strip for Nutrient Control
Producers are looking for more cost-effective alternatives for controlling feedlot runoff. However, regulating agencies need to know these alternatives will protect the environment. As ...
Nutrient Movement and Removal in a Switchgrass Biomass–Filter Strip System Treated with Dairy Manure
The effectiveness of switchgrass filter strips to remove nutrients from dairy effluent and solid manure was assessed. Five rates of solid dairy manure and lagoon effluent were applied t ...
LPES Lesson 22: Open Lot Runoff Management Options
As the demand grows for cleaner water, large and small open lot confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) will need to reduce and control the nutrient and sediment loading of the runof ...
Alternative Technology Virtual Tour: Vegetative Treatment System at the Meat Animal Research Center (MARC), Clay Center, Nebraska
A passive runoff control system was designed to separate solids, as well as eliminate long-term liquid storage at the MARC research center in Clay Center, Nebraska. The system has effec ...
Alternative Technology Virtual Tour: Soil Infiltration and Wetland Vegetative Treatment System to Treat Open Beef Feedlot Runoff
Runoff from an Iowa State University beef feedlot is treated with a vegetative treatment system. The system utilizes solids settling, a vegetative treatment area, a wetland, and vegetat ...