How Do CAFO

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How Do CAFOs Land Apply Manure?
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What is a CAFO?

• In the State of Indiana Animal Feeding Operations
  are permitted as Confined Feeding Facilities
  (CFOs) or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
  (CAFOs). The farm size determines whether or not
  an operation is labeled a CAFO.

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What is Land Application?

• Utilizing manure from livestock operations on
  fields used to grow crops.
• Manure can be surface applied onto the soil or
  injected into the soil.

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Why Land Apply Manure?

• Manure nutrients help build and maintain soil
  fertility
• Manure can also improve soil tilth, increase
  water-holding capacity, lessen wind and water
  erosion, improve aeration, and promote beneficial
  organisms

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Video Presentation

• How Do CAFOs Land Apply Manure?

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Questions?
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Resources

• Indiana Confined Feeding Regulation Program
  Guidance Manual. Indiana Department of
  Environmental Management
• Best Management Practices Land Application of
  Animal Manure AGF-208-95. Ohio State University
  Extension Office
• Land Application of Manure and Environmentally
  Sensitive Field Characteristics. Frankenberger,
  Jane R. and Jones, Don D., Purdue University
  Gould, Charles and Jacobs, Lee, Michigan State
  University.