Composting Livestock Mortality and Butcher Waste
Event Details
Date
September 17, 2024
Time
5:30pm-7pm
Location
Bare Bones Butchering
5786 County Road 17
Friendship, NY 14739
Host
CCE Allegany County
Lynn Bliven
585-268-7644 ext. 18
email Lynn Bliven
Routine and emergency losses of poultry and livestock are significant environmental, biosecurity and waste management concerns. In addition, disposal of offal and butcher waste is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive as renderers close. Mortality composting is cost effective, environmentally sound, compassionate, easy to do, and can be done at any time of the year. This presentation will cover what composting is, site preparation, and how to compost livestock on farms; including the regulations in New York State.
Please join Cornell Cooperative Extension Allegany County at this workshop for farmers and meat processors to be held from 5:30-7:00 pm on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. Our presenter, Jean Bonhotal, Waste Management Specialist and Director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute in Soil and Crop Sciences has spent over 25 years in education of composting food, manure, animal carcasses, along with compost quality and use. Host location for our program is Bare Bones Butchering located in Friendship NY.
There is no fee, however pre-registration is requested. This event will be held rain or shine. Registration link: https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/Composting_Livestock_Waste_202
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