Facts About Ag Odors, Emissions
Videos on animal agriculture odors and airborne emissions provide science-based information.
Videos to help owners and managers of animal feeding operations, their neighbors, elected officials, policy makers and interested community members discuss and find useful science-based information and resources about odors and airborne emissions from the feeding operations are available online through eXtension.
Good information helps people make informed decisions. Producers and managers of livestock and poultry operations need information to understand how their practices affect odor and gas emissions from their facilities and the impacts those emissions have on their neighbors and community. Producers, their neighbors, elected officials and policy makers need information to help them balance the concerns and needs of the community and the men and women who own and operate animal-feeding operations.
The videos were produced for a multi-state USDA-funded research and Extension project led by Kevin Janni, professor and extension engineer at the University of Minnesota. A group including producers and managers of swine, poultry and dairy operations, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, human medicine, veterinary medicine, local and state regulators, local and county elected officials, extension and National Resource Conservation Services (NRCS) experts helped define the project. The videos build on an earlier project that developed fact sheets describing several practices for mitigating airborne emissions.
“The videos are a quick and easy way to begin talking about issues related to odors and other airborne emissions from livestock and poultry operations and point people towards useful science-based information,” Janni said. The videos present multiple perspectives and include comments from producers, medical doctors and people with experience dealing with livestock odors and gas emissions.
The websites include links to fact sheets, archived webinars and additional videos. Videos in the series include:
- Airborne Emissions and Odor Management: Policy Considerations, www.extension.org/66999
- Feedlot Air Emissions Treatment Cost Calculator, www.extension.org/67055
- Managing Odors and Neighbor Relations and Estimating Setbacks, www.extension.org/67056
- Manure Covers and Biofilters for Managing Odors and Air Emissions, www.extension.org/67057
- Health Impacts of Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations, www.extension.org/67058
