August 2022 issue

Volume 67, Issue 8

A riff on the term “watershed,” the recently coined “manureshed” refers to the crops and other land around a livestock operation that could use the nutrients from the animals' manure, creating a circular nutrient system. A new Journal of Environmental Quality special section explores the complex array of issues related to manureshed research and management. In this month's issue, we highlight challenges to collecting accurate livestock data and study some examples, including a “mega-manureshed” stretching across the southeastern United States. See story on p. 4. Photos/illustrations courtesy of (clockwise from top): Flickr/Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, USDA, Peter Kleinman, and Bob Nichols/USDA.