SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Status: Approved

Basic Information

Project No. and Title: NCCC_OLD9 : MWPS:Research and Extension Educational Materials
Period Covered: 10/01/2007 to 09/01/2008
Date of Report: 10/14/2008
Annual Meeting Dates: 05/21/2008 to 05/22/2008

Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

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[Minutes]

Horse Facilities Handbook, MWPS-60. This handbook was used as the basis for materials to support a series of workshops in Illinois. Illinois Manure Management Plans tool IMMP was published for Illinois in 2005 and expanded to an interactive web tool in 2006-07. Several of the IMMP "planning steps" are referenced in the Illinois NRCS field guide for writing Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans. Distributed a listing of MWPS publications to all Extension and Experiment Station offices in North Dakota and to all Extension specialists on campus. Revised a news story developed by MWPS entitled "Maintaining grain quality in storage" and sent it out through the NDSU news packet. Dairy Freestall Housing and Equipment, MWPS-7, was used as a text in a University of Wisconsin Livestock Housing class with about thirty-seven students enrolled. This publication is also used widely by UW County Extension faculty as a reference in their work while advising dairy producers. Sprinkler Irrigation Systems, MWPS-30, was used by the instructor as a reference in a University of Wisconsin irrigation class. Manure Characteristics, MWPS-18-S1, and Manure Storages, MWPS-18 Section 2, are used quite extensively as references by the instructor for the University of Wisconsin class titled Sediment and Bionutrient Engineering and Management. MWPS documents were used when the curriculum for the University of Wisconsin class Sediment and Bio-nutrient Control Systems course was modified. This is an Ag. Waste management class that covers waste characteristics and the design of management systems. Wiring Handbook for Rural Facilities, MWPS 28, has been used as a text in the University of Wisconsin Farm Energy and Wiring short course (enrollment 20-30). It has also been used as supporting text for UW stray voltage training courses. The following books were placed on the MWPS website to download for free: o Solar Livestock Housing Handbook: MWPS-23 o On-site Domestic Sewage Disposal Handbook: MWPS-24 o Swine Housing & Equipment Handbook: MWPS-8 Books printed On-Demand since June 07: o Beef Cattle Handbook 30 copies o Structures and Environment 145 copies o Beef Housing & Equip Handbook 137 copies New books added to catalog: o The Pond Guidebook: NRAES-178 --- December Sold 67 copies o Housing Plans for Calves & Heifers: NRAES-201 April Sold 11 copies o Agricultural Ventilation Fans: IL-07 (from the University of Illinois) o Agricultural Ventilation Fans Supplement: IL-08 (from the University of Illinois) o Mitigating Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations (Iowa State University). MWPS will sell whatever inventory is left after the conference and reprint if necessary. Still needs to be placed on the web. All Livestock and Poultry Environmental Stewardship(LPES) material was moved to the eXtension website North Dakota Education opportunities that use MWPS publications (Extension meetings, conferences, classroom): o Display of MWPS publications at the Big Iron Farm show held in Fargo o MWPS-28 Wiring Handbook for Rural Facilities is being used as a textbook in an ASM class. o MWPS-50 Living on Acreages is part of an educational program in the northeastern part of the state dealing with rural living.

Impacts

House Handbook, MWPS-16. This publication continues to be the text for the University of Illinois undergraduate course, Technical Systems Management 371, Residential Housing. Extension advertises the Handbook at first-time homebuyer programs, and refers to it when contacting homeowners and remodelers. The Handbook was referenced during the 2007 series of home energy conservation and indoor air quality workshops that were partially funded by the HUD Healthy Homes project.
Wiring Handbook for Rural Facilities, MWPS-28. The updated Wiring Handbook continues to be a principle reference for Extension staff taking individual calls on rural wiring issues. The Handbook was advertised as a desk reference at a county zoning informational meeting, where officials and landowners were contemplating expanding the local electrical inspection requirements for new buildings in non-incorporated areas of the county.
Rectangular Concrete Manure Storages Handbook, MWPS-36. This publication is referenced in Illinois state statutes, and continues to be used by consultants and regulators for livestock facility planning and construction in the state.
Illinois uses several of the tables in MWPS-18 Section 1, Manure Characteristics, in IMMP as beginning reference values that producers use to start building their manure management plans.
Manure Characteristics (MWPS-18-S1) and Manure Storages (MWPS-18 Section 2) are used quite extensively as references by the instructor for the North Dakota class Sediment and Bionutrient Engineering and Management.
Indiana (Purdue University) Education opportunities that use MWPS publications (Extension meetings, conferences, classroom) include a series of Factsheets for Indiana County Extension educators, based on MWPS-50 (Living on Acreages: What you need to know) was developed in response to a request from county extension staff. They are available at: http://www.ydae.purdue.edu/Lifestyle%20Farming/.

Publications

None this period

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