Composting Animal Mortalities
Paper authored by Jean Bonhotal, Mary Schwarz and Robert Rynk. Read more.
Paper authored by Jean Bonhotal, Mary Schwarz and Robert Rynk. Read more.
Paper published in the Proceedings in the 5th International Symposium: Managing Animal Mortalities, Products, By-Products and Associated Health Risk. September 25-October 1, 2015.
The 70 minute webcast provides a current update of the outbreak and highlight mortality management options. October 2015. View the webcast. Find out more about this webcast by the Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning ...
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CWMI has updated this back yard burning brochure and is available in a 2-page and a 3-fold format.
Published in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (2015) 226: 265. Click here.
This fact sheet from the Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities project contains information about metals commonly found in urban garden soils, including sources, behavior in garden soil, concerns about human and plant health, what gardeners ...
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The podcast examines why soil contamination makes gardening potentially risky in some areas. Cornell Professor Murray McBride, Ph.D., and Hannah Shayler, an extension associate with the Cornell Waste Management Institute, discuss a recent survey ...
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The objective of this study, by Mary Schwarz and Jean Bonhotal, was to determine whether composting would reduce the concentration of ivermectin found in the manure of de-wormed horses. Click here for the report.
The Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities project published two articles in Environment Pollution: a study of metals contamination in NYC community garden soils and a study of metals concentrations in urban garden-grown vegetables
A two-part series “Livestock Mortality Composting: Beyond the Basics” sponsored by Livestock and Poultry Environmental (LPE) Learning Center and can be viewed at: Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 covers: pile characteristics for ...
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Paper by Mary Schwarz, Jean Bonhotal, Karyn Bischoff and Joseph Ebel published in Trends in Animal & Veterinary Sciences Journal 4(1):1-12, 2013.
Held in May 2012, the Symposium Proceedings includes papers, posters and compendium. The Symposium Presentations are available in a separate document (due to file size).
The Cornell Waste Management Institute has developed a web page containing many of their solid waste educational materials that have been translated into Spanish – from compost curriculum for schools and communities to mortality ...
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Compost Science & Utilization, (2012), Vol. 20, No. 3, 141-149. Authors: William Brinton, Jean Bonhotal and Tom Fiesinger. http://solvita.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Brinton-Bonhotal-Fiesinger-CSU.pdf