For additional reference, we have a number of information sheets available for download:
At a Glance Reference Guide for NCLE download pdf
Seminar recording: Food Production for Enough Healthy Consumption Watch now
UM Today article featuring Dr. Martin: Conversations on sustainable food: Is it safe, healthy and just? link
Ralph Martin, professor and Loblaw Chair in Sustainable Food Production, University of Guelph
Seminar recording: Contemplating the Role for Animal Agriculture in Environmentally Sustainable Food Production Watch now (Requires RealPlayer - Free download at http://www.real.com/realplayer)
Henry Janzen, a senior scientist with AAFC, encourages serious contemplation of the long term sustainability of the millennia-old practice of raising animals for food
Greenhouse Gases in Agroecosystems
Follow this link to access all greenhouse gas mitigation resources for producers and educators
- Resources for Producers - Beneficial Management Practices Factsheets for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
- Land and crop rotation
- Nitrogen fertilizer
- Cattle production
- Resources for Student Educators
Resources for making and using compost
- FACTSHEET: BMPs for Composting Manure and Other Organic Materials
- FACTSHEET: BMPs for Using Compost for Growing Vegetables
- Composting calculator tool for determining starting material mixing ratios
- Composting protocol (includes formulas for calculating moisture content, bulk density and the self-heating test to assess compost stability and sampling procedures
- Windrow information and monitoring recording sheets (moisture and temperature
Sustainable Beef-Forage Production Systems
- NCLE Cattle-Forage Production Systems Research download
- Wheat and wheat-corn Distiller’s Dry Grain with Solubles (DDGS) for Cattle factsheet download
Sustainable Manure Nutrient Management
- Glenlea Long Term Manure and Crop Management Field Trial download
- Best Management Strategies to Improve the Productivity and Environmental Sustainability of Grassland Pasture Systems download
- NCLE Agricultural By-Products Processing Research and Demonstration Facility backgrounder download
- Forms of P in Different Manures and Their Impact on P Runoff and Leaching Losses from Manure Amended Soils: Summary and Implications download
- NCLE Research in Support of Achieving Manure Phosphorus Balance in Manitoba webpage or download
Sow Group Housing Systems
- Reference Handbook: Options for Successful Group-Housing of Sows download
- Factsheet: Group Housing Systems - Choices and Designs download
- For additional information on Sow Housing Options, visit National Sow Housing Conversion Project
