The Farm Manure to Energy Initiative: Using Excess Manure to Generate Farm Income
Channel: Livestock & Poultry Environ. Learning Community
Date: 03/05/2013

Proceedings available at: http://www.extension.org/67617

Currently, all the Bay states are working to achieve nutrient reduction goals from various pollution sources.  Significant reductions in phosphorus pollution from agriculture, particularly with respect to phosphorus losses from land application of manure are needed to support a healthy aquatic ecosystem.  Producers in high-density animal agricultural production areas such as Lancaster County region of Pennsylvania, the Delmarva Peninsula, and the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, need viable alternatives to local land application in order to meet nutrient reduction goals.