TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
ABE 5707C  Agricultural Waste Management
Fall Semester 2006
					UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Date	Day	Topic
24-Aug	Th	Introduction and Course Description
24-Aug	Th	Organic Waste Management and Problems with Organic Wastes
29-Aug	T	Problems with Organic Wastes (continued)
31-Aug	Th	Problems with Organic Wastes (continued)
5-Sep	T	Problems with Organic Wastes (continued)
7-Sep	Th	Field Trip to Dairy Research Unit -- Hague
12-Sep	T	Field Trip Discussion
		Problems with Organic Wastes (continued)
		Review of Waste and Wastewater Analysis -- Oxygen Demand and Solids Analyses
14-Sep	Th	Review of Waste and Wastewater Analysis -- Nitrogen and Phosphorus
		Sampling
		Livestock Waste Testing Laboratory
19-Sep	T	Organic Waste Handling "Systems" -- Components
21-Sep	Th	Municipal Wastewater Treatment
		Tour of UF Water Reclamation Facility
26-Sep	T
28-Sep	Th	Soils Review (?)
3-Oct	T	Land Application Rates
5-Oct	Th	Field Trip to Dairy Research Unit
10-Oct	T	Land Application Rates (continued)
12-Oct	Th	Land Application Rates (continued)
17-Oct	T	Storage Facilities
19-Oct	Th	Moultrie Ag Expo Field Trip (optional)
24-Oct	T	Storage Ponds
26-Oct	Th	Storage Ponds, Anaerobic Lagoons, and Aerobic Lagoons
31-Oct	T	Air Emissions and Influence of Waste Management Practices
2-Nov	Th	Example Problem -- Comparison of Storage Pond and Anaerobic Lagoon
7-Nov	T	Example Problem -- Comparison of Storage Pond and Anaerobic Lagoon
9-Nov	Th	Permitting -- Handouts from DEP, Continue example problem with anaerobic lagoon
14-Nov	T	Mechanically aerated lagoon systems -- Aquajet performance data
16-Nov	Th	Field trip to Alliance and Piedmont Dairy -- Trenton
21-Nov	T	NO CLASS
23-Nov	Th	Thanksgiving Day -- NO CLASS
28-Nov	T	Discussion of H-2
30-Nov	Th	Mechanically aerated systems and field trip to SEBAC unit
5-Dec	T	Composting systems
7-Dec	Th	Reading Day -- No Class