• Project No. and Title: S1074 - Fostering Technologies, Metrics, and Behaviors for Sustainable Advances in Animal Agriculture
• Dates: 06/01/2026 to 06/04/2026
• Contacts: [Lingying Zhao] [Julie Smith]

This authorizes the annual meeting: .
The meeting will be held on 06/01/2026 at Quality Inn Suites, 5455 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, CA. :

Admin Advisor: Graham (Cliff) Lamb (gclamb@tamu.edu)

Meeting Objectives<br /> • Collectively assess and document sustainability assessment tools for use in the livestock industry<br /> • Prepare the annual report<br /> <br /> 8:00 Welcome, introductions and review of project and meeting objectives<br /> <br /> 8:30 California Dairy Perspective Panel: What metrics or tools inform your decision-making or guidance?<br /> • Denise Mullinax, Executive Director, California Dairy Research Foundation www.cdrf.org. You can find manure management work here https://cdqap.org/ammp-outreach-project/ <br /> • J.P. Cativiela, President Cogent oversees CVDRMP, Dairy Cares https://www.dairycares.com/ https://www.cvdrmp.org/index.html Central Valley Dairy Representative Monitoring Program<br /> • Paul Sousa, Director of Environmental Services & Regulatory AffairsWestern United Dairy https://westernuniteddairies.com/ <br /> • Each speaker will provide a ~10 min overview of their organization and approach to metrics, with an opportunity for questions after each speaker<br /> • Activity - Add new tools to our working summary<br /> <br /> 10:00 Break<br /> <br /> 10:15 Discussion and Activity - Schema for validation of tools to build trust in their continued development and deployment—Nestles is using Cool Farm, US Dairy uses Farm ES.<br /> <br /> 12:00 Lunch Provided<br /> <br /> 1:00 Project Potluck <br /> • Roundtable presentations by members and guests<br /> • Each presenter can highlight 1 or 2 projects in 7 min or less<br /> • Prompt: Highlight alignment with S1074 project objectives, and what can the S1074 group provide in terms of methods, collaborations, or translation to other regions?<br /> <br /> 2:45 Break<br /> <br /> 3:00 Business Meeting<br /> • Update from Administrative Advisor Cliff Lamb<br /> • Annual Report<br /> • Election of Secretary<br /> June 3, 2026<br /> Tour of California dairy manure management systems<br /> <br /> https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/lcfs-life-cycle-analysis-models-and-documentation pathway to LCFS <br /> <br /> –we will go in a van. No individual cars allowed. <br /> <br /> Dairy 1. 2,200 holstein lactating cow facility with freestalls. Springing heifers, dry cows and milking cows housed at dairy. Manure is flushed 4x daily into a processing pit, over a mechanical separator and down a sandlane. This water enters an anaerobic digester or is used for flushing. Digester retention time is c. 28 days and water exits to lagoon storage, irrigation (flood or sub surface drip), BIDA beds (c. 10,000 g/d to worms) or goes back across to the adjacent dairy. Gas from digester is used for fuel cells and replaces electricity. CalBio is the digester developer and MindSpring is the fuel cell developer. Waste water is imported from the dairy across the street and digestate is returned. The BIDA was funded by the AMP federal funds and the dairy is participating in a pre and post installation research project. We have lots of data. The dairy has an electrified feed station which reduces labor needed for feeding and allows much faster delivery of feed (truck not a tractor). <br /> <br /> Dairy 2.TBD<br /> June 4, 2026 <br /> Travel Day (Optional) or Yosemite National Park