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Mitigating swine odor with strategically designed shelterbelt systems: a review

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Recent reports clearly indicate that odor emitted from concentrated livestock production facilities in the Midwest of the US is a significant social problem that negatively impacts rural and state economies, human health, and the quality of rural life. A potential incremental approach to dealing with livestock odor is the use of shelterbelts arranged in strategic designs near and within livestock facilities. This review outlines the various ways that shelterbelts can be effective technology which bio-physically mitigates odor thereby reducing social conflict from odor nuisance. The biophysical potential of shelterbelts to mitigate livestock odor arises from the tree/shrub impacts on the central characteristics and physical behavior of livestock odor. As the majority of odors generated in animal facilities that are detectable at appreciable distances travel as particulates, there is compelling evidence that shelterbelts can ameliorate livestock odor by impeding the movement of these particulates. Because the odor source is near the ground and the tendency of livestock odor is to travel along the ground, shelterbelts of modest heights (i.e. 20–30 ft) may be ideal for odor interception, disruption, and dilution. Shelterbelts can be adapted to fit almost any production situation. Depending on shelterbelt health, these trees can provide long term, year round odor interception, with increasing effectiveness over time. Additionally, more is becoming known about how landscape aesthetics affect how people might perceive livestock odor, suggesting that landscape elements such as shelterbelts can lead to aesthetic improvements and perhaps more positive opinions of livestock odor and the farm systems that create them.

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The authors would like to thank the United States Department of Agriculture National Agroforestry Center for their sponsorship of this project (project number: USDA, National Agroforestry Center, Lincoln, Nebraska: 4124–4521–48–3209). We would also like to thank Bruce Wight, Lead Agroforester with the National Agroforestry Center and Jan Thompson, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University for their helpful comments.

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Tyndall, J., Colletti, J. Mitigating swine odor with strategically designed shelterbelt systems: a review. Agroforest Syst 69, 45–65 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-006-9017-6

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