The Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center , a National Facilitation Project of the CSREES National Integrated Water Quality Program, and The National Center for Manure & Animal Waste Management , funded by the USDA Fund for Rural America, are important projects helping USDA address this issue.
Economics of Animal Waste Management
There are costs and benefits in implementing animal waste management practices and complying with animal waste regulations. USDA CSREES sponsors research into the economics of animal waste management to improve and protect water quality.
Accomplishments:
For more information on the current state
of knowledge on the economics of animal waste management, refer
to the following white paper summaries:
Both of these summaries were produced by the National Center for Manure and Animal Waste Management funded through a USDA CSREES Fund for Rural America Grant.
The intent of this page is not to catalogue all activities but rather to indicate the types of research activities in the Animal Waste Management theme across the U.S.