SNIFFING MANURE?

Posted by MasterTikitak
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Jan 2, 2008
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Well...Here is a thought:  Lets all sniff some animal excrement and make some money! I cut this short, but the purpose of the research is to analyze why some new developments near animal farms complain about the odors.

 

"Purdue students sniff manure for science"

(FROM AP       1/1/08)

"WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs — by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens for odor research being conducted by Albert Heber, a Purdue professor of agricultural and biological engineering.

"Typically they're farm smells — manure, farm waste, hay. The only thing that is good is that we are not smelling it for a long time. It's just a sniff," said civil engineering graduate student Anuj Sharma.

The students' work provides Heber with data for his ongoing research on ways to improve methods for estimating a given livestock farming operation's odor emissions."

 

 

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