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Pork Center of Excellence offers manure fact sheets

May 11, 2012 – The U.S. Pork Center of Excellence offers a variety of fact sheets explaining the science behind odor and manure management techniques via the Pork Information Gateway website’s Environmental Stewardship domain. Erin Cortus, assistant professor, South Dakota State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, maintains this section of the website.

She says an increasing world population means waste handling practices will need to continue to improve, while at the same time a higher population will also demand more protein production, which will result in more livestock manure to handle. READ MORE