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Seeing deeper awareness of waste management issues as a key to the financial success of farms in New York and across the country, the Cornell Waste Management Institute produced this VHS video for agricultural audiences in a variety of settings. The video provides an overview of serious economic questions surrounding agricultural waste disposal and offers suggestions for effective waste management. (1996)

Farm Waste Management Makes $ense, NRAES-111, is a nine-minute video providing an overview of serious economic questions surrounding agricultural waste disposal and offering suggestions for effective waste management.

Farmers in the Northeast have traditionally disposed of farm and household waste by maintaining small dumps and by burning combustible materials on-site. Waste oil, pesticides, used batteries, and other potential contaminants, as well as containers, plastics, and cast-off equipment have been disposed of in these ways. Under the pressures of greater numbers of nonfarm neighbors, wider use of plastics that add to the problem of agricultural wastes, and stricter environmental regulation, continued on-site burning and dumping may jeopardize the viability of some farms. In addition, farm lenders are concerned about the impact of environmental degradation on long-term collateral value.

Seeing deeper awareness of waste management issues as a key to the financial success of farms in New York and across the country, the Cornell Waste Management Institute produced Farm Waste Management Makes $ense for agricultural audiences in a variety of settings.

Farm Waste Management Makes $ense, NRAES-111, is available for $19.00 per copy (plus S & H/sales tax) from NRAES, Cooperative Extension, PO Box 4557, Ithaca, New York 14852-4557. Quantity discounts are available. The shipping and handling charge is $4.25 for a single copy within the continental United States. New York residents, add sales tax (calculated on both the cost of publications and the shipping and handling charges. Click here for more information). If ordering more than one copy, or if ordering from outside the United States, please contact NRAES for shipping rates. Orders from outside the United States must be prepaid in U.S. funds. Major credit cards are accepted, and checks should be made payable to NRAES. For additional information, or for a free publications catalog, contact NRAES by phone at (607) 255-7654, by fax at (607) 254-8770, or by e-mail at nraes@cornell.edu