NRI Air Quality All-Investigator
Meeting
As a result of the National Research Initiative’s
(NRI) Air Quality program, significant progress
has been made in measuring emissions of gases
and particulate matter from agricultural
operations, as well as in developing management
practices to reduce emissions. The first
NRI Air Quality all-investigator meeting
was held in Washington, DC on May 12, 2005.
Representatives from all thirteen projects
funded in 2004 were present. Some of the
highlights from the reporting session were:
- reductions of almost half in ammonia
emissions from swine when fed reduced crude
protein diets;
- fertilizer induced nitrous oxide emissions
in the northern great plains were found
to be an order of magnitude lower than
current accepted inventories;
- validation of odor intensity measurements
with different methods is possible, and;
- vegetation buffers reduced down-wind
emissions from poultry houses.
For additional information from the meeting,
go to the meeting
agenda and select any of the projects
to view their presentations.
The project updates are also
available alongside their Current Research
Information System (CRIS) abstracts, objectives,
and publications.
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