1999 Annual Report for ENE99-048
Alternative - Herbal Livestock Health Practices
Summary
Summary
This project objectives are to organize and host a conference for the northeastern states on complementary and alternative approaches to livestock nutrition and health, to develop a sourcebook for agricultural professionals about complementary and alternative approaches to livestock nutrition and health, and to create a web page that contains the sourcebook. The first objective has been met—a conference, “Alternative and Herbal Livestock Health,” was held on October 20 and 21 of 2000 at the University of Connecticut. Sixty-four people from 13 states attended. A conference proceedings was published and the proceedings may be published in the Journal of Alternative Agriculture.
Objectives
To organize and host a workshop for the northeastern states on complementary and alternative approaches to livestock nutrition and health, and to publish a proceedings of the workshop.
To develop a sourcebook for agricultural professionals about complementary and alternative approaches to livestock nutrition and health, and about poisonous plants that affect livestock health. The format for the development and publication of the sourcebook would be the German Commission E’s monographs about herbal remedies used in human medicine.
To create a web page containing the information in the sourcebook and in the workshop proceeding.
Approach
There will be three major components to the project. The first will be the organization and delivery of a regional workshop about alternative livestock health practices. The second component will be the development and publication of a sourcebook about complementary and alternative approaches to livestock health and poisonous plants that affect livestock health. The third component will be the creation of a web page containing the sourcebook and the workshop proceedings within the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture’s web page.
Results
A conference, “Alternative and Herbal Livestock Health,” was held on October 20 and 21, 2000, at the University of Connecticut with 64 people from around the region in attendance. A conference proceedings was published and the proceedings may be published in the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture. We are currently working with the editor to explore this.
Impacts and Potential Contributions
We asked conference participants evaluate our conference in writing, and 42 responded. One result from the evaluation shows that 74 percent of those surveyed believed that the conference provided them with information that would cause them to change something in their teaching, research, farm or business.
Publishing the conference proceedings in the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture will allow a wider audience to obtain the latest information about the science of alternative and herbal livestock health practices.
We currently are working on completing the remaining objectives. We have started developing the sourcebook for agricultural professionals about complimentary and alliterative approaches to livestock health, and we will create a web page containing the information in the source book.
We received letters from two participants of the conference that commented on the quality of the conference. The letters from Martha Mewbourne of Nickelsville, Virginia and Sister Telchilde Hinckley, Ph.D. of Bethlehem, Connecticut, are on file at the Northeast SARE office.
Reported November 2000
Collaborators:
University of Connecticut