Particulate Matter Adjacent to Cattle Deep-Bedded Monoslope Facilities
Channel: Livestock & Poultry Environ. Learning Community
Date: 2013-06-11

Proceedings available at: http://www.extension.org/67704

Confined cattle facilities are an increasingly common housing system in the Northern Great Plains region.  Many of these facilities add organic bedding material to the pens once or twice per week.  Particulate matter concentrations and emissions from these facilities have not been evaluated.  The objective of this study was to quantify particulate matter concentration adjacent to a deep-bedded monoslope facility housing cattle and to compare the concentrations during normal operation and a bedding event.