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A new set of 24 fact sheets and related slide presentations is designed to help livestock and poultry producers deal with revised federal regulations for concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO).

A national team of 20 land-grant university faculty, USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service staff and National Pork Board staff collaborated on the project. The project was managed through the Midwest Plan Service (MWPS) on the Iowa State University campus.

Three people in the ISU College of Agriculture reviewed one or more fact sheets, including Wendy Powers, associate professor of animal science; Jeff Lorimor, associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering; and Angela Rieck-Hinz, extension program specialist in agronomy. Bill Koenig, an MWPS staff engineer, reviewed one of the fact sheets.

The series is a part of the larger Livestock and Poultry Environmental Stewardship (LPES) curriculum, which is intended to promote the voluntary practice of environmental stewardship principles in the animal production industry.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently revised CAFO regulations. The LPES CAFO Fact Sheet series was developed with assistance from the EPA's National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center to ensure compatibility of the series with the final CAFO rules.

To promote understanding and implementation, the series addresses the following questions producers might have about the CAFO regulations:

• Will my operation be affected by the revised CAFO regulations?
• What must I do to comply with the CAFO regulations?
• What is the timeline for achieving compliance?
• What records do I need to keep and what annual reports do I need to provide to EPA?
• Is any financial or technical assistance available to achieve compliance?

The series can be viewed online at the LPES website, http://www.lpes.org/CAFO.html. The series also is available through the catalog section of the MWPS website at http://www.mwps.org.

The series is available in three downloadable formats: PDF files, MS Word® files, and PowerPoint® slide presentations. The free PDF files can be read online, printed or downloaded for future reference. Developed for educators and advisers, the Word® files and PowerPoint® presentations can be purchased, downloaded and modified to meet local, state and regional needs. A one-time fee of $50 provides continuing, unlimited download privileges.