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Acknowledgments
The development of this bulletin began in
1987
when a committee was established to address the need for information
concerning on-farm composting. Robert Rynk, former extension agricultural engineer at the University of Massachusetts,
led the committee and wrote and edited many drafts of the manuscript. During the project, most of the authors were not
n
employed
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the land grant system and donated their time to the development
of
the handbook. NRAES is grateful
to
the
authors
for
their commitment to this project.
This material is based upon work supported by the Extension Service and Soil Conservation Service,
U.S.
Department of
The
Agriculture,under
specialprojectnumber91-ESNP-1-5153.
New York State Department of Agriculture andMarkets
provided funds to the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Comell University that were used for the
development of sections of this handbook. Additional support was provided by the New York State Department of
Agriculture and Markets, through a grant from the New York State Water Resources Institute. The University of
Massachusetts provided administrative support for the project.
Credits
Portions
of
the
material
on
grinders and shredders in chapter
5
were taken from
Yard
Waste
Management: A Planning
GuideforNew York State
by Richard, Dickson, and Rowland.
A
portion of the discussion
on
screens in chapter5 was taken
from
Composting Fish
By-Products:
A Feasibility
Study
by Brinton and Seekins. Special thanks must
go
to the farmers
and composters who provided most of the real-world information that made the case studies in chapter
10
possible: Marvin
Glaum, Glaum Egg Ranch; Elizabeth Henderson and David Stem, Rose Valley Farm; Wayne Gerster and Fred Feit,
Gerster
&
Sons,
Inc.; Karl Hammer and Nels
Johnson,
Moody Hill
Farms;
Brett Kreher, Kreher Poultry Farms; Tom
Richard, Hardscrabble Farm; Gary Tennant, Comell University Farm Services; and David Allen, Farmer Automatic of
America, Inc. The authors are grateful to the compost equipment manufacturers and other commercial enterprises that gave
permission
for
their information and illustrations to he used in developing this handbook. Chapter
1
includes a brief
description of parasitic protozoans and the potential
for
these pathogens to he destroyed during the composting process.
The following persons from Comell University assisted in developing the text: Alice Pell, Associate Professor, Animal
Science; Susan Wade, Director, Parasitology Division, Diagnostic Lab, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine;
William Ghiorse, Associate Professor, Microbiology; Lynne
J.
Brundage-Anguish, Research Support Specialist, Micro-
biology; and Keith Porter, Director, New York State Water Resources Institute.
Reviewers
The authors wish to thank the many people who reviewed the drafts of this handbook and offered useful suggestions.
Certain reviewers provided in-depth reviews and offered guidance and suggestions that were particularly helpful. They
are
listed
on
the inside back cover.
Disclaimers and Further
Notes
Throughout the text, certain illustrations were developed from commercial products, and trade names and equipment
manufacturers' names are used. Trade names and commercial products are used for illustrative purposes and to simplify
information. They do not imply an endorsement of any particular product
or
a preference for a particular trade name.
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Cooperative Extension
A
NRAES-54
On-Farm Composting
Handbook
Editor:
Robert
Rynk
Robert Rynk
Maarten van de Kamp
George
B.
Willson
Mark
E.
Singley
Tom
L.
Richard
John J. Kolega
Francis
R.
Gouin
Lucien Laliberty, Jr.
David Kay
Dennis
W.
Murphy
Harry A. J. Hoitink
William
F.
Brinton
Technical Editor: Marty Sailus
Production Editor and Designer: Jeffrey
S.
Popow
Illustrators: Jacqueline Bernat and Richard J. Grant
Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service
152 Riley-Robb Hall
Cooperative Extension
Ithaca. NY 14853-5701
The Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service (NRAES) is an official
activity
of
thirteen land grant universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The
following are cooperating members:
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
University
of
Delaware
Newark, DE
University
of
the District
of
Columbia
Washington, DC
University
of
Maine
Orono.
ME
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
University
of
Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
University
of
New Hampshire
Durham, NH
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
Comell University
Ithaca, NY
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
NRAES-54
June, 1992
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1992 by Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service
All rights reserved. Inquiries invited. (607) 255-7654.
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Authors
Robert Rynk
Former Extension Agricultural Engineer
Food Engineering Department
University
of
Massachusetts
Maarten van
de
Kamp
Compost Program Consultant
Massachusetts Department
of
Food and Agriculture
Boston, Massachusetts
George B. Willson
Owtier
George
B.
Willson Associates
Laurel, Maryland
Mark
E.
Singley
Professor
I1
Emeritus
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Cook College, Rutgers University
Tom
L.
Richard
Biological Engineer
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Cornell University
John
J.
Kolega
Emeritus Associate Professor
of
Agricultural Engineering
Natural Resources Management and Engineering
University of Connecticut
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