BELMONT, NEW YORK – Composting Livestock Mortality and Butcher Waste
Lynn Bliven, Agriculture & Natural Resources Issue Leader
Composting Livestock Mortality and Butcher Waste
Routine and emergency losses of poultry and livestock are significant environmental, biosecurity, and waste management concerns. In addition, disposal of offal and butcher waste is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive as renderers close. Mortality composting is cost effective, environmentally sound, compassionate, easy to do, and can be done at any time of the year. This presentation will cover what composting is, site preparation, and how to compost livestock on farms; including the regulations in New York State.
Please join Cornell Cooperative Extension Allegany County at this workshop for farmers and meat processors to be held from 5:30-7:00 pm on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. Our presenter, Jean Bonhotal, Waste Management Specialist and Director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute in Soil and Crop Sciences has spent over 25 years in education of composting food, manure, animal carcasses, along with compost quality and use. Host location for our program is Bare Bones Butchering in Friendship, NY.
There is no fee, however pre-registration is requested. Event will be held rain or shine. For more details follow registration link: https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/
Composting Livestock Mortality and Butcher Waste workshop is one of many programs offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Allegany County (CCE-Allegany). The association is part of the national cooperative extension system, an educational partnership between County, State, and Federal governments. As New York’s land grant university Cornell administers the system in this state. For more information, call 585-268-7644 or visit our website at www.cce.cornell.edu/allegany. Cornell Cooperative Extension provides equal program and employment opportunities.
Photo Credit: Cornell Waste Management Institute
Lynn A. Bliven
Agriculture & Natural Resources Issue Leader
Cornell Cooperative Extension Allegany County
