# Presentation: 746841

## Intro

- Feed Management – An Ingredient in
- Whole Farm Nutrient Management

**Notes:**
This ppt is to introduce the workshop.
Key points will be to outline workshop, 
Introduce resources such as flow diagram, 592 std, opportunity checklist, and feed management plan checklist.

## Feed Management as Part of a CNMP

**Notes:**
This ppt is to introduce step 2 A to a nutritionist audience.
Key item in this presentation is to make sure that the student understands the connection that Feed Mgt has with the CNMP process.
Recommend that students look at the implementation flow chart and 592 Std.
This presentation will focus on a dairy example.

## National Issue

- EPA & USDA Unified National Strategy
- Developed to minimize the
- environmental and public
- health impacts of AFOs
- _Supporting Key Element _
- All AFO have a CNMP
- developed by a certified
- specialist by 2008

**Notes:**
In 1999, EPA and the USDA worked together to develop a Unified National Strategy that would aid in providing protection of the environment around animal feeding operations. At the time, they proposed that every AFO would have a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan developed by a certified individual by 2008. At this time CNMPs are still being promoted, NRCS requires a CNMP developed by an NRCS employee or a certified specialists, some states require a CNMP for CAFOs, and EPA requires a similar document for NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permitting called a NMP (Nutrient Management Plan) that does not required a certified specialist for submission.

The proposed revision to the Federal CAFO rule (7/24/06) currently requires new and existing operations to be in compliance by July 31, 2007. 

## NRCS Conservation Planning Process

- Identify ResourceConcerns

- Identify NeededConservation Practices

- Develop a CNMP

- A CNMP is a Part of the
- Overall Conservation Plan

**Notes:**
The goal of the conservation planning process is to develop a conservation plan. Here the end goal of the conservation planning process is to develop an conservation plan for an animal feeding operation. A conservation plan addresses problems and concerns associated with all the resources at the site. A producer first determines the resource management goals for the facility. Then a TSP or NRCS employee can work with the producer to determine the conservation practices that should be put in place to reach the resource management goals. A Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP) is a conservation plan developed specifically for an animal feeding operation. It consists of conservation practices that must address water quality and soil erosion problems associated with a animal feeding operations. Air quality goals can also be considered in the CNMP. 

## Feed 

- Feed
- Management

- Manure &
- Wastewater
-  Storage
- & Handling

- Nutrient
- Management

- Land
- Treatment Practices

- Record
- Keeping

- Other
- Utilization
- Activities

**Six Elements**
**Of a CNMP**

## Feed Management 592 

- Feed Management Plan development

- FMP Implementation

- FMP Monitoring

- Sampling and Analysis

- Record Keeping

**Consulting Nutritionist **

- Conduct On-Farm assessment to provide basis for FMP
** **

**NRCS, TSP, CNMP Planner **

- Determine if operation is candidate for FM
** **

## Feed Management Practice Code 592

- http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/efotg/

## Feed Management

- 	Feed management activities may be used to reduce the nutrient content of manure at the farm. Feed management activities may be dealt with as a planning consideration and not as a requirement that addresses specific criteria; however, AFO owners/operators are encouraged to incorporate feed management as part of their nutrient management strategy.

## Feed Management 592

- _Definition:_
- Manage the quantity of available
- nutrients fed to livestock and poultry
- for their intended purpose

**Notes:**
The overall goal of the 592 std is to “Manage the quantity of available nutrients fed to livestock and poultry for their intended Purpose”

## Feed 

- Management

**Step 1) Determine purpose**

**Step 3) Economic evaluation**

**Step 4) Feed management plan development **

**Step 5) Implement and monitor**

**Step 2) Identify conditions where practice applies and assess the Opportunities**

## Activity

**Step 1) Determine purpose**

**Step 3) Economic evaluation**

**Step 4) Feed management plan development **

**CNMP* Activity**

**Step 5) Implement and monitor**

**Step 2) Identify conditions where practice applies and assess the Opportunities**

- *CNMP= Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan

**Step 1) Nutrient Management Planner **
**and Producer**

**Step 2) Nutrient Management Planner **
**and Producer**

**Step 3)Nutrient Management Planner, Producer, and Nutritionist**

**Step 4) Nutritionist and Producer**

**Step 5) Nutritionist and Producer**

- Who

## Purpose of Feed Management 592 

**Feed to minimize excess nutrients in manure while maintaining production, performance, and reproduction **

**Feed to improve net farm income by feeding more efficiently.**

- Purpose of Feed Management 592
- Practice Standard

**Notes:**
Left column example: reduced nutrients in manure will help with whole farm nutrient management, 
another tool for farm to use to achieve environmental stewardship
Right column example: whole farm nutrient balance is ok, but there is am interest in improving net farm income by feeding more efficiently, a farm that is low intensity, few cows and lots of acres, 60 cows and 200 acres

## Applying Feed Management

- 	Where does the Feed Management Standard apply?
-          1) Whole farm imbalance
-          2) Soil nutrient build-up
-          3) Land base not large enough
-          4) Seeking to enhance nutrient efficiencies

**Notes:**
The next step to be shared in the following presentation will be the use of the opportunity checklist on the farm with the producer to determine the relative opportunity for feed management to impact Whole Farm Nutrient Management or increase net farm income by feeding more efficiently.

- Nutritionist and producer work to implement and monitor FMP

**Notes:**
Remind students that this is where we are in the implementation process.

## Resources

- Fact Sheets
- Flow Charts
- Checklists
- Decision Aid Tools

- Feed
- Management