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Group Discussion

Action Items

  1. Contact List
    • Information
      1. Name
      2. Location
      3. Email
      4. Phone number
      5. Brief description of work related to Animal Feeding Operations(AFOs)
    • United States Geological Survey (USGS) (Dave Freiwald)
      1. District specialist
      2. Regional Specialist
    • Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) (Bill Boyd)
      1. State Specialist
    • Cooperative State Research Education adn Extension Service (CSREES) (Richard Hegg)
    • Agriculture Research Service (ARS) (Dale Bucks)
    • List by state
    • Administrative verses Technical verses Research by Discipline
    • Economic / Social (Fen Hunt, Franceska Wilde)
  2. Web Page (Aaron Pugh)
    • Purpose
      1. Document today’s meeting
    • Search engine
    • Links
      1. USDA - Current Research Information System (CRIS)
      2. USGS - Automated Information System (AIS)
      3. Partnership Management Team (PMT) Database
        • USGS participation
      4. Listserver
      5. NRCS, ARS, CRSEES, USGS - AFO Pages
    • Contact list
      1. Name
      2. Location
      3. Email
      4. Phone number
      5. Brief description of work related to AFOs
    • Future Meetings List
      1. NRCS Today
      2. American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE)
      3. Non-point source
      4. National Water Quality Information Center (Joe Machuk)
      5. CSREES National meetings

Most promising/productive collaborative efforts (list contacts for each item, list of current activities, facilitate contacts)
  • Training
    1. Review each other’s training
  • Standards (Bill Hughey)
  • Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) (Pat Hunt, Mike Focazio)
    1. who are players
    2. models
  • Pathogens (Barry Rosen, Franceska Wilde)
  • Pharm (Richard Hegg, Mike Meyer)
  • Hydrology (modeling/data) (Brian Haggard, Phil Hays)
    1. Runoff
    2. Land application
    3. Water quality
    4. Flow
  • Tech transfer from researcher to field
    1. Results from existing work, references
    2. Best Management Practices (BMP) assessment and cost benefit

Funding
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Reconnect
  • Teleconference - 2nd quarter FY02

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