Iowa Cattlemen’s Association Receives EPA Grant

The Iowa Cattlemen’s Association and Agriculture Engineering Associates were awarded a $500,000 grant from EPA for a two-year project to monitor the effectiveness of alternative technologies at six demonstration sites. 

Cattle producers have become subject to increasing environmental regulations. One such regulation requires that large, concentrated animal feeding operations apply for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit and establish a site-specific system by April 2006 that allows for no discharge of manure, litter or process wastewater pollutants into the waters of the United States from the production area.

NCBA supports government funding to expedite and demonstrate appropriate technologies that will allow concentrated animal feeding operation feedlots to utilize their land and management resources to improve environmental protection for air and water in the most efficient ways possible.  This effort is critical to maintaining viable livestock production with grassroots participation in the U.S.  NCBA believes these technologies will demonstrate more sustainable, affordable environmental solutions to the air and water quality challenges of managing open feedlot systems in a variety of climates.