Division: ASA Section: Environmental Quality

Title: State of Animal Manure Management and Related Technologies On Water Resources and the Environment: (Best Poster Competition Awards: Graduate Student and Professional Papers)

Lead Community Sponsor: Animal Agriculture and the Environment Community
Cosponsor: Environmental Quality
Community Cosponsor:
Format: Poster Topical Session
Keywords: eutrophicationindustrial wastesmanure storage and treatmentwater quality

Session Description: The main focus of this poster session is on the movement of excess nutrients from animal manure and byproducts, industrial wastes, and effluents from municipal and sewage treatment facilities into soil, air and water can cause significant environmental problems. Nitrogen and phosphorus from animal manure and other sources have been associated with algal blooms and accelerated eutrophication of estuaries within confined animal production areas.

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