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Feb. 25, 2014
Contact:
Mary Hightower, Cooperative Extension Service communications501-671-2126 / [email protected]
Big Creek research team seminar to discuss hog farm water monitoring report
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A team of scientists at the University of Arkansas System
Division of Agriculture will discuss preliminary findings from its recent report on water
monitoring near the C&H Hog Farm in Newton County. Members of the Big Creek
Research and Extension Team will present “Big Creek and the C&H Farm: The Science”
at 3 p.m. March 4 at Hembree Auditorium in the Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
Building on the UA campus. The AFLS Building is on Maple Street just west of Garland
Avenue.
Andrew Sharpley, professor of crop, soil, and environmental sciences, is the Big
Creek team leader. Sharpley will be joined by Mike Daniels and Kris Brye, professors of
crop, soil, and environmental sciences, and Karl VanDevender, professor of biological
and agricultural engineering. A question-and-answer period will follow the discussion.
The research and extension team is conducting an in-depth examination of the
hog farm in the Buffalo River watershed as it lays groundwork for the multi-phase, long-
term study. The team is conducting the work using funds from Gov. Mike Beebe’s office.
Funding was approved by a legislative subcommittee last September. Site work on the
study began in October.
The team’s first quarterly report was delivered Jan. 31 to the Arkansas
Department of Environmental Quality and the Arkansas governor’s office. The report is
available online at http://arkansasagnews.uark.edu/bigcreekquarter1.pdf. An addendum
to the first quarter report is available online at
http://arkansasagnews.uark.edu/bigcreekreport.quarter1addendum.pdf.