Managing Manure To Improve Air and Water Quality—Pollution from animal waste poses management challenges because it can affect multiple resources. This report assesses the economic and environmental tradeoffs between water and air quality policies that could require the animal sector to take potentially costly measures to abate pollution.

Manure Management for Water Quality: Costs to Animal Feeding Operations of Applying Manure Nutrients to Land—Ever-growing numbers of animals per farm and per acre have increased the risk of water pollution from manure nutrients applied to land. This report assesses the costs to the largest animal feeding operations to meet new Clean Water Act regulations on land application of manure nutrients.

• Economic Measures of Soil Conservation Benefits: Regional Values for Policy Assessment
• The Use of Markets To Increase Private Investment in Environmental Stewardship
• The Changing Economics of U.S. Hog Production
• Amber Waves, September 2007
• Impact of Rising Natural Gas Prices on U.S. Ammonia Supply

• Farm Business and Household Survey Data: Customized Data Summaries from ARMS
• U.S. Fertilizer Use and Price
• Environmental Quality Incentives Program Data
• Confined Animal and Manure Nutrient Data System