Farm‐level Economic and Water Quality Impacts of Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan Implementation in the Ohio River Basin

Osei, Edward; Du, Bing; Hauck, Larry M.; Li, Huijun; Tanter, Alexander

doi:10.1111/1752-1688.12518

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“…Despite continuing research to develop sustainable swine manure management technologies [59,60], most improvements involve adjustments to the current regime rather than radical shifts in technology adoption. Such adjustments include changes to animal diet, implementing comprehensive nutrient management plans, and buy-out programs for farms in flood-prone areas [61][62][63]. Still, to the landscape surrounding the lagoon-sprayfield regime, it may appear largely unchanged from the time the two agreements discussed in this study were brokered in 1999 and 2000 [64][65][66].…”

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Sustainable Swine Manure Management: A Tale of Two Agreements

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Intensification and concentration of swine farming has provided economic benefit to rural communities but also negative environmental and human health impacts, particularly from the use of the lagoon-sprayfield system for manure management. Although cost effective, this system is susceptible to poor management, unpleasant odor and other emissions, and inundation during extreme weather events. Competition for manure-spreading acres with other livestock or encroaching development can also pose a problem. This study examines two agreements between industry and government designed to develop and implement improved manure management technologies for swine farms: a voluntary agreement between the attorney general of North Carolina and Smithfield Foods and a consent judgment between the State of Missouri and Premium Standard Farms. Individuals involved in executing these agreements were interviewed to gain insight from their perspective on those processes and lessons they learned from their experience. Common themes among participant responses to support transition processes included the need to involve multiple stakeholder groups, clearly define goals, understand the system, allow time for incremental change, and provide adequate “protected space” for technology development and implementation. Viewing these themes through the lens of multi-level perspective theory identifies leverage points throughout the system to support transitioning farms to a more sustainable path of manure management.

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“…Foreign colleges have developed a series of strategies to assure teaching quality. Australia created a quality supervision system composed of evaluation, optimization, reinterpretation, role assignment, and informatization strategies [4]. Some colleges in the United States incorporated the organizational management, supervision, evaluation, and criteria setting of teaching quality into the teaching quality guarantee system [5,6].…”

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Use of the Key Performance Index Evaluation Model for a Comparative Analysis of the Professional Teaching Quality of Economic Management

Chang

2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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The key performance index (KPI) evaluation provides a guarantee for discipline construction, talent training, and research development and planning in colleges. Based on KPI evaluation model, this paper compares the professional teaching quality of economic management of different types of colleges, different teaching models, and different disciplines, through KPI appraisal. The results show that: teaching quality can be evaluated by several important indices, namely, teaching attitude, teaching content, teaching method, and teaching effect; the most important indices are teaching attitude and teaching content, followed by teaching effect and teaching method. The index scores of professional education mode were much higher than those of general education mode. Teaching effect is the highest rated index among students of accounting, and teaching attitude is the highest rated index among students of business administration. The research results lay the theoretical basis for colleges to improve KPI appraisal system and appraisal supervision system.

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Farm‐level Economic and Water Quality Impacts of Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan Implementation in the Ohio River Basin

Cited by 2 publications

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Sustainable Swine Manure Management: A Tale of Two Agreements

Sustainable Swine Manure Management: A Tale of Two Agreements

Use of the Key Performance Index Evaluation Model for a Comparative Analysis of the Professional Teaching Quality of Economic Management

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