(Applying the USDA-NRCS 592 Feed Management Standard on horse farms in order to improve water and environmental quality.)
This project was funded by a USDA-NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG). The goal of the project was to determine if a feed management program could be developed for horse farms that would be easy and straightforward to implement and that could yield consistent results in terms of improved water and environmental quality.
The goals of this seminar are to:
- Present a rationale for feed management programs and improving environmental quality
- Describe the New Jersey CIG project
- Make recommendations based on the New Jersey project
- Describe feed management programs in other states and with other species
- Discuss how a feed management (USDA-NRCS 592) program could be developed for horses, and if so, how should it be structured and administered
Who Should Attend?
This program is open to technical professionals who work with farmers, and other interested parties, on feed and nutrient management.
Speakers
- Mike Westendorf, Rutgers University
- Goals and objectives
- Regional surveys, analysis of forage/feed/soil/pasture
- Overfeeding phosphorus to horses, and effects on environmental quality
- Dave Clapp, NJDA
- Support from the NJ Department of Agriculture
- Laura Gladney, Rutgers University
- Farm selection
- On-farm program surveys/observations
- Implementation of recommendations
- Joe Harrison, Washington State University
- Feed management programming
- NRCS Feed Management 592 standards
- Implementation in other species
- Dan Ludwig, Pennsylvania USDA, NRCS
- Pennsylvania Feed Management Program
- Implementation on dairy farms and possibilities for equine adoption
- Carey Williams, Rutgers University
- Feed management evaluation
- Recommendations on program farms
- One-year farm follow-up
- Overfeeding nitrogen to horses, and effects on environmental quality
The day will conclude with a panel discussion about horse feeding and the environment, and the possibility of implementing the NRCS standards in New Jersey.
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