Progress 08/15/09 to 08/14/11
Outputs
OUTPUTS: The dairy industry in the Southwest of the United States (including Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) is increasingly playing an important role in the production and processing of milk and dairy products. From 1990 to 2010 the share of milk produced in the Southwest increased from 6.7 to 11.3 percent of total U.S. production. Milk production in the Southwest in 2010 amounted to 21.8 billion pounds of milk valued at $3.6 billion. Most of this milk was processed in the Southwest into dairy products such as fluid milk, butter, cheese, dry milk, and ice cream. From 1997 to 2009, milk processing more than doubled in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. In this time span, the dairy processing share of the region increased from 6.1 to 8.9 percent of the total value of U.S. dairy processing. The value of dairy products produced in these states during 2009 was valued at $7.6 billion. Data which is becoming increasingly important for validation and modeling efforts underway for the NAEMS study, currently in the hands of EPA. Research results have been reported at the ASABE International Symposium for Air Quality and Manure Management for Agriculture on September 13-16, 2010 in Dallas, TX. Additional results were presented at the 2011 Western Dairy Air Quality Symposium in Sacramento, CA on April 20-21, 2011, and the first journal paper has been published. Additional publications are being prepared. A 3,400 cow capacity, open corral dairy was instrumented and had its water usage monitored for 19 months. Open corral dairies are the predominant form of dairy facilities found on the Texas High Plains. Total water use was 234 L hd-1 d-1, while the average drinking water consumption was 76 L hd-1 d-1. This data is consistent with values used in recent water planning exercises in the Texas High Plains Region. Of the total water drawn from the Ogallala Aquifer and used in the dairy facility, approximately 27% was reused for crop production. Additional funding from the Ogallala Aquifer Program (OAP) has been obtained to continue the research efforts and to determine whether the fraction of Ogallala Aquifer water used by dairies and subsequently reused for crop irrigation can be economically increased by implementing more water efficient practices in the milking parlors and/or reducing losses from the waste treatment system. PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
The direct economic activities of the dairy industry were obtained from statistics from the 2009 Annual Survey of Manufactures. The value of output or sales of processed dairy products in the Southwest region in 2009 was $7.6 billion. The industry employed 9,343 people and paid approximately $648 million in salaries. After including the indirect and induced effects, the total economic effects attributable to the Southwest dairy industry included an estimated $16.9 billion in industrial sales, 57 thousand jobs, and personal income of approximately $3 billion. The output multiplier was 2.23. Which means for every dollar increase in output of Southwest Dairy processing $2.23 dollars of additional economic activity is created. Economic Impacts on individual states can be seen in the Table 1. Several manuscripts (extension and peer-reviewed) are currently being prepared.
Publications
- Todd, Richard W., N. Andy Cole, and K.D. Casey. 2010. Methane emissions from a southern High Plains dairy wastewater lagoon. In McGeough, E.J. and S.M. McGinn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture, Banff, Canada, October 3-8, 2010.
- Todd R.W., N.A. Cole, K.D. Casey, R. Hagevoort, B.W. Auvermann. 2010. Methane Emissions From A New Mexico Dairy Lagoon System. International Symposium for Air Quality and Manure Management for Agriculture. September 13-16, 2010. Dallas, TX. http://asae.frymulti.com/abstract.aspaid=32618&t=2
- Auvermann, B.W. 2011. Texas/New Mexico open lot Research. WSDPTA's 2011 Western Dairy Air Quality Symposium. http://westerndairies.org/2011symposium/03Auvermann.pdf
- Todd R.W., N.A. Cole, K.D. Casey, B.W. Auvermann, R. Hagevoort. 2011. Methane Emissions from New Mexico Dairy Lagoons. WSDPTA's 2011 Western Dairy Air Quality Symposium. http://westerndairies.org/2011symposium/07Todd.pdf
- Todd R.W., N.A. Cole, K.D. Casey, R. Hagevoort, B.W. Auvermann. 2011. Methane and Ammonia Emissions from Southern High Plains Dairy Wastewater lagoons in the Summer. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 166-167(2011) 575-580.
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