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Projects In Progress
- Successful conversion of existing barns to sow group housing: building a reference document for use by pork producers, extension personnel and other stakeholders
- Whole farm nutrient balance: evaluating diets containing zero tannin faba beans and DDGS for the whole pig production and manure management system
- Dietary manipulation strategies to minimize excretion of nitrogen and phosphorus into manure while maintaining pig growth and health
- Beneficial management practices for greenhouse gas mitigation from agroecosystems, with emphasis on cow-calf non-confinement production systems in Western Canada
- Overwintering beef cows in Manitoba – impact of management on productivity and environmental sustainability
- Ecoregion examination of feeding and management strategies in the Canadian beef industry
- Use of residual feed intake (RFI) to select breeding stock in forage-based beef cattle production systems
- Developing a strategy for forage and grassland management: examination and assessment of multifunctional value in terms of productivity and environmental sustainability
- Comparison of economic and environmental efficiencies of advanced beef production systems in the Western Canadian Parkland
- Assessing the efficacy of chemically-enhanced solid-liquid separation for management of phosphorus in hog manure
- Developing a calculator for estimating the fertilizer equivalence of different manures
- Utilization of processed hog manure separation products in Manitoba
- Downward movement of nitrate and phosphorus from liquid versus solid swine manure in an annual and perennial cropping system
- Characterization and monitoring of odour from various liquid manure separation products
- Examination of the environmental and economic value of forage and grassland in Manitoba: establishing the multi-functional value of Manitoba grasslands
Recently Completed Projects (within 1 year)
- Use of high tannin forages to improve sustainability of integrated beef/forage production systems: forage and cattle productivity, nutrient dynamics, greenhouse gases, pathogens
- Rumen microbial community and pathogen shedding from cattle during the overwintering period: implications for supplementation of low quality forage diets with dried distillers grains (DDGS) in a cold-stressed environment
- Development of Manitoba-based computer models for nutrient management in the laying hen industry: dietary manipulation strategies to improve nutrient use efficiency, particularly phosphorus, while meeting nutritional needs of laying hens and egg quality
- Reducing whole-farm surpluses of phosphorus and potassium in intensive livestock operations: a case study of dairy farms
- Reclaiming phosphorus from liquid pig manure: precipitation of P as struvite (MgNH4PO4) from stored, treated and anaerobically digested manure and implications for use as fertilizer
- Modeling anaerobic digestion of pig manure at 50° latitude in Western Canada: options for improving the energy balance of methane production in cold climates
- NCLE long term sustainable nutrient management for manure applied to annual and perennial crops: differing livestock manure and crop management scenarios
- Development of dispersion-based setback distance guidelines for Manitoba
Archived Reports (>1 yr)
Animal Care
SWINE MANAGEMENT
- Sow longevity and housing environment: identification of factors contributing to longevity of sows in the breeding herd - development of an economic predictive model for use as a decision making tool.
- Nutrient management planning for sow operations using extant and new feed consumption models and manure analysis
BEEF / FORAGE MANAGEMENT
- Development of models to quantify and monitor the spatiotemporal distribution of vegetation biomass in Manitoba grasslands/pastures using satellite imagery
- Use of ionophores to temporarily suppress enteric methane production: adaptation of rumen microbial communities and re-establishment of methane production.
- Fertilization of forage land with liquid pig manure: evaluating the potential of using hog manure as a fertilizer for forage crop in beef cattle production. La Broquerie Phase I (2003 - 2007)
DAIRY MANAGEMENT
POULTRY MANAGEMENT
- Performance and welfare of laying hens in conventional and enriched cages
- Inclusion of DDGs in poultry diets and manure phosphorus content: implications for feeding strategies to decrease phosphorus loading
Manure & Byproducts
GREENHOUSE GASES
- Modeling greenhouse gas emissions from stored manure: evaluation of dietary manipulation effects
- Effects of manure and formulated N fertilizers on greenhouse gas emissions in the Red River Valley
- Quantitative assessment and mitigation of total greenhouse gas emissions from livestock manure applied to soil: determining the impact of diet on net greenhouse gas emissions and developing equations relating nutrient composition of feed, manure and GHG emissions
VALUE –ADDED MANURE PROCESSING
- Fertilization of forage land with liquid pig manure: evaluating the potential of using hog manure as a fertilizer for forage crops in beef cattle production. La Broquerie Phase I (2003-2007)
- Anaerobically digested solid beef feedlot manure: N2O emissions and nutrient (N, P) availability and release
- Kinetics of struvite precipitation
- Anaerobic digestion: capacity of co-digestion with glycerol (a biodiesel by-product) to boost methane production from liquid pig manure
- Evaluation of the opportunity for manure treatment/processing technologies to achieve manure phosphorus balance.
NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
- Fertilization of forage land with liquid pig manure: evaluating the potential of using hog manure as a fertilizer for forage crops in beef cattle production. La Broquerie Phase I
- Manitoba Beef Producers solid cattle manure management project: nitrogen and non-nitrogen benefits of manure for crop production
- Forms of phosphorus in different manures and their impact on P runoff and leaching losses from manure amended soils
MANURE STORAGE
ODOUR MITIGATION
- Modeling greenhouse gas emissions from stored manure: evaluation of dietary manipulation effects
- Comparison of odour emissions between Aerway and non-Aerway manure application methods at the La Broquerie Project Site
- Design and testing of an enclosed biofilter
- Evaluation of a modular, interior-mounted biofilter
- Agricultural biofilters -reflections on a decade of research
PATHOGENS, OTHER
- A regional dynamic assessment of emerging manure management in Manitoba
- Farm level and regional impacts of forage based manure management in Manitoba: La Broquerie Project Phase I (completed 2007). This site was established in 2003 and is home to an extensive multidisciplinary study of which Phase II began in 2008.
- Environmental impacts of spreading hog manure on pasture: pathogens and antibiotic resistance in water. La Broquerie Phase I (2003-2007)
- Sustainability of grassland systems receiving pig manure on coarse-textured soil: fate of nutrients and pathogens over time. La Broquerie Phase II (2003-2010)
Land, Air & Water
- Quantitative assessment and mitigation of total greenhouse gas emissions from livestock manure applied to soil: determining the impact of diet on net greenhouse gas emissions and developing equations relating nutrient composition of feed, manure and GHG emissions
- Fertilization of forage land with liquid pig manure: evaluating the potential of using hog manure as a fertilizer for forage crops in beef cattle production. La Broquerie Phase I (2003-2007)
- Farm level and regional impacts of forage based manure management in Manitoba: La Broquerie Project Phase I (completed 2007). This site was established in 2003 and is home to an extensive multidisciplinary study of which Phase II began in 2008.
- Environmental impacts of spreading hog manure on pasture: pathogens and antibiotic resistance in water. La Broquerie Phase I (2003-2007)
- Sustainability of grassland systems receiving pig manure on coarse-textured soil: fate of nutrients and pathogens over time. La Broquerie Phase II (2003-2010)
- Greenhouse gas emissions as related to forage-crop conversions: determining agricultural land management practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Manitoba Beef Producers solid cattle manure management project: nitrogen and non-nitrogen benefits of manure for crop production
- Soil organic carbon in long-term crop rotation and management studies in South Central Manitoba and the Red River Valley: contribution of cropping and management strategies to carbon sequestration.
- Carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emission benefit of including perennials in annual cropping systems
- Greenhouse gas fluxes and budget for an annual cropping system in the Red River Valley, Manitoba, Canada
- Development of models to quantify and monitor the spatiotemporal distribution of vegetation biomass in Manitoba grasslands/pastures using satellite imagery
- Effects of manure and formulated N fertilizers on greenhouse gas emissions in the Red River Valley
- Forms of phosphorus in different manures and their impact on P runoff and leaching losses from manure amended soils
Systems Modeling
- Quantitative assessment and mitigation of total greenhouse gas emissions from livestock manure applied to soil: determining the impact of diet on net greenhouse gas emissions and developing equations relating nutrient composition of feed, manure and GHG emissions
- Nutrient management planning for sow operations using extant and new feed consumption models and manure analysis
- Development of models to quantify and monitor the spatiotemporal distribution of vegetation biomass in Manitoba grasslands/pastures using satellite imagery
- Modeling greenhouse gas emissions from stored manure: evaluation of dietary manipulation effects
- Effects of manure and formulated N fertilizers on greenhouse gas emissions in the Red River Valley
- Fertilization of forage land with liquid pig manure: evaluating the potential of using hog manure as a fertilizer for forage crops in beef cattle production. La Broquerie Phase I
- Sustainability of grassland systems receiving pig manure on coarse-textured soil: fate of nutrients and pathogens over time. La Broquerie Phase II (2003-2010)
Agriculture & Society
- Sow longevity and housing environment: identification of factors contributing to longevity of sows in the breeding herd - development of an economic predictive model for use as a decision making tool.
- Performance and welfare of laying hens in conventional and enriched cages
- Farm level and regional impacts of forage based manure management in Manitoba: La Broquerie Project Phase I (completed 2007). This site was established in 2003 and is home to an extensive multidisciplinary study of which Phase II began in 2008.
- Environmental impacts of spreading hog manure on pasture: pathogens and antibiotic resistance in water. La Broquerie Phase I (2003-2007)
- Sustainability of grassland systems receiving pig manure on coarse-textured soil: fate of nutrients and pathogens over time. La Broquerie Phase II (2003-2010)
- Comparison of odour emissions between Aerway and non-Aerway manure application methods at the La Broquerie Project Site
- A regional dynamic assessment of emerging manure management in Manitoba
- Design and testing of an enclosed biofilter
- Agricultural biofilters - reflections on a decade of research
- Controlling the spread of Johne’s Disease (JD): composting as a means of eliminating JD
