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Vegetative Buffers: From Biomass to Bedding

GNE16-127 (project overview)
Project Type: Graduate Student
Funds awarded in 2016: $14,258.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2017
Grant Recipient: Penn State University
Region: Northeast
State: Pennsylvania
Graduate Student:
Amy Barkley
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Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Paul Patterson
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Penn State University
Faculty Advisors:
Dr. Michael Hulet
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Penn State University
Dr. Jude Liu
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Penn State University
Description:
This presentation was given at the 2017 Poultry Science Association Annual Meeting, held July 17-21 in Orlando, FL at the symposium entitled, "Vegetative Buffers for Environmental Stewardship on Poultry Farms". The focus was on how biomass buffer species (switchgrass and biomass willow), whether planted as buffers or as field crops, can be harvested and used as poultry bedding. Particle size comparisons between the switchgrass beddings produced were evaluated to determine how particle distribution contributes to a bedding's overall success. The second half of the presentation detailed results from the willow project where green willow chips were compared to a commercial kiln-dried softwood shaving at our cooperator's broiler production facility.
Type:
Conference/Presentation Material
File:
Download file (PDF)
Author:
Amy Barkley, Penn State University
Target audiences:
Educators; Researchers
Ordering info:
Cost: $0.00
This product is associated with the project "Renewable alternative bedding for commercial broiler chicken production"
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or SARE.

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