Air Quality

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• Discussing an online tool intended to help you evaluate your livestock system for potential air quality improvement.  No data is collected nor is the operation identified.  This is just for you to know and consider.  Iowa State Extension Agronomist Angela Reick-Hinz joins us to overview the program called NAQSAT - National Air Quality Site Assessment Tool.

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• Paradyme AgriSolutions says real improvements in air quality benefit both livestock and workers.  Bruce Cochrane discusses Electrostatic Particle Ionization (EPI) with President John Baumgartner.

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• Environmental Counsel for the National Pork Producers Council, Michael Formica, logs in with this update on environmental issues in Washington and elsewhere.  There are some elements to this information which can dramatically change how you do what you do.  Stay close to what's happening here!

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• Bruce Cochrane logs in with this conversation on research to mitigate methane emissions on swine operations.  He talks with Dr. Nazim Cicek, an associate professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba.

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• Researchers at the University of Georgia looking at ways to use utilize biofuel byproducts discover a process to limit ammonia volitilization by feeding 'char' to poultry.  Would it work for all monogastrics?

SwineCast 0400 Show Notes:

• Bruce Cochrane shares Canadian research on removing solids from manures to lower phosphorus loads in local areas
• NPPC Chief Environmental Council Michael Formica hooks up to share front burner issues at both state and national levels for producers

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• Special report from World Pork Expo... the Environmental Managers Survey Executive Summary with NPPC's Environmental Policy Counsel Michael Formica. You're sitting in on the press conference

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• New PCV Vaccine research looks at maternal immunity and onset of protection
• Considerations for adjustments possible in light of high feed costs with Dr John Patience of PSC
• Air quality equipment... North Carolina State study of ozonation and the impact on barn environment