Resources

  • Michigan 4-H Market Animal Project Record Book

    Published on October 17, 2014
    4-H Market Animal projects provide youth an opportunity to gain life skills such as record keeping, communication and self-responsibility through raising and selling a livestock animal.

  • Zoonotic Disease

    Published on October 10, 2014
    Learn about germs that can spread between humans and animals, and how to reduce everyone’s risk of catching them

  • Farm Information Resource Management (FIRM)

    Published on March 27, 2013
    Improve your life and achieve your goals through an educational process that applies management, production and economic knowledge to critical issues, needs, and opportunities.

  • Growing Michigan Agriculture Proceedings

    Published on January 24, 2013
    Proceedings from the Growing Michigan Agriculture Conference, held Jan. 24, 2013 at the Lansing Center in Lansing, Mich.

  • Emerging Issues in Animal Agriculture

    Published on November 26, 2012
    Michigan State University Extension has released a series of white papers on Emerging Issues in Animal Agriculture written by Extension educators and specialists.

  • Odor Management Plans

    Published on June 11, 2012
    Odor management plans (OMP) can help farmers determine the major farm odor sources.

  • Michigan CNMP DLL Template

    Published on May 16, 2012
    Michigan CNMP DLL Template

  • Safe Home Processing of Poultry

    Published on April 2, 2012
    4-H youths raise poultry every year as projects for county or state fair exhibits. After the fair, some birds may be processed either for immediate consumption or for future use.

  • MSU Poultry Research & Teaching Center

    Published on March 20, 2012

  • Suggestions for Ordinances Allowing Backyard Poultry

    Published on February 27, 2012
    Keeping a small flock of chickens in cities is an activity that is growing in popularity. Unfortunately, there is often a large gap between these new urban audiences and their knowledge of poultry husbandry.