Deadline Extended for Air Consent Agreement
Pork producers who signed an Air Consent Agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have a deadline to meet....
NPPC Comments on EPA's CAFO Rule
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has submitted preliminary comments on the federal Clean Water Act rule proposed by the Environmental Protection...
Biofilters Beat Problem Gases
Producer-agricultural engineer develops simple system that effectively filters out manure odors and reduces neighborhood complaints. Neighbors driving...
Biofilter System Lowers Manure Load, Odor by 90%
Odor complaints from neighbors living downwind from hog barns may soon be a thing of the past. Biosor, a biological filtration system perfected in Quebec,...
Five Technologies Rise to the Surface
The long-awaited, five-year, $17.3 million study to identify effective swine manure management alternatives is nearing completion. North Carolina's pork...
Odor Tracking Goes Hi-Tech
Researchers at the National Soil Tilth Lab are coordinating with University of Iowa scientists to use lasers and wind tunnels to track how swine odors...
Phase Feeding Affects Sow Productivity
When regulations in the Netherlands required that ammonia emissions be cut by 50%, animal scientists at Wageningen University looked at phase-feeding...
NPPC Supports EPA's OK of Air Agreements
Agreement protects producers from penalties for emissions violations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent approval of air consent...
NPPC Comments On Air Regulations
The National Pork Producers Council has filed comments on proposed rules by the Environmental Protection Agency on particulate matter ...
Three Ways to Improve Barn Air Quality
Airborne dust particulates and gases, such as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide, are almost always present in confinement hog operations....
