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Composting
- also visit our composting
page
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On-Farm
Composting Handbook, Natural Resource, Agriculture
and Engineering Service, www.nraes.org.
This handbook presents a thorough overview of farm-scale composting and explains
how to produce, use, and market compost.
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Composting
Horse Manure -
UMASS Extension Fact Sheet
Composting:
Recycling the Feed You've Paid For - USDA
NRCS Connecticut Horse Environmental Awareness Program
Fact Sheet.
O2
Compost Systems -
provides resources and training for establishing on-farm
composting systems.
Composting
for Small Scale Livestock Operations -
Penn State fact sheet providing designs for constructing
small compost bins.
Rhode
Island Composting Facilities - A Solution For Pollution -
brochure listing commercial composting facilities and
RI Department of Environmental Management contact information
concerning laws and regulations.
Maine
Compost School - provides courses, videos
and resource library.
Horse
Manure Management: The Nitrogen Enhancement System -
Ohio State Extension fact sheet on adding nitrogen
fertilizer to horse manure with a high wood bedding
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Horses University
of Vermont - Vermont Pasture Network - horse
pasture management and renovating horse paddocks with
geotextiles and gravel.
Equestrian
Land Conservation Resource - state of
New York. View their "Keeping It Green" videos
on manure, pasture and runoff management topics.
Livestock
and Land Program - State of California;
non-profit partnership helping livestock and horse
owners with implementing management practices. Visit
this site to see many great "before" and "after" photos
for addressing horse manure, paddock and runoff management
on challenging sites.
Horses
for Clean Water - State of Washington;
organization that provides education on horse keeping.
eXtension
- Horsequest -- internet-based educational
resources from over 70 universities throughout the
nation. Providing objective, research-based information
on horse care and management.
Dairy
One - provides forage, milk and soil testing
services, including a link to equi-analytical
laboratories which
provides the horse industry with quality forage and
feed analysis.
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Pasture
management - also visit our pasture
pages 
USDA
NRCS Connecticut Horse Environmental Awareness
Program (HEAP) -
see fact sheets on Pasture: Planning, Seeding and
Management;
The Art and Science of Pasture Management; and Slowing
the Flow with Vegetated Buffers
Pasture
Establishment for Small Scale Livestock Operations -
Penn State fact sheet
Vermont
Pasture Network
Mass
Grass - www.massgrass.org -
pasture initiative that encompasses southern New England
The
Northeast Grazing Guide -- Northeast Pasture
Research and Extension Consortium, contains education
resources
on grazing management
The
National Livestock and Poultry Learning Center
- Small
Farm Fact sheets -
see fact sheets on The ABCs of Pasture
Grazing, Livestock Watering Systems and Electric
Livestock Fencing.
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Livestock
yard management - reducing mud and runoff - also visit our livestock
yard pages 
Keeping
Clean and Dry With Water Diversions -
USDA NRCS Connecticut Horse Environmental Awareness
Program Fact Sheet.
Mud
Management For Small Scale Livestock Operations -
Penn State Fact Sheet
See
the resources listed for horses -
contains many resources and demonstration sites for reducing
mud and runoff.
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Soil testing and nutrient management
- also visit our page on recycling
manure 
University
of Massachusetts Soil and Plant Tissue Testing Lab -
download order forms and information for soil, compost
and plant tissue testing
University
of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension Crops, Dairy,
Livestock, Equine - visit the publications page
for a variety of manure and nutrient management fact sheets
including
manure inventory and manure spreader calibration.
University
of Connecticut Soil Testing Lab - download order
forms and information for soil and plant tissue testing.
Penn
State Manure Testing Program - download order form and
information for manure testing
Dairy
One - provides forage, milk and soil testing
services, including a link to equi-analytical
laboratories which
provides the horse industry with quality forage and feed
analysis.
Nutrient
Management - Simplified - from National
Livestock and Poultry Environmental Stewardship Small
Farms Fact Sheet series
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