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Confined Animal Manure Manager Program (CAMM)
| Name | Bryan Smith | | Situation | In 1996 the South Carolina Legislature passed regulation R.61-43, "Standards for the Permitting of Agricultural Animal Facilities." This regulation requires operators of all permitted, confined animal feeding operations in South Carolina to attend an animal waste management training provided by Clemson University. | | Response | Over the last year, Agent Bryan Smith has coordinated the successful training of 16 swine growers, one animal care facility operator, four dairy producers, 57 poultry growers, and three agency/integrator personnel in two trainings. This coordination included working with six instructors to find a date suitable for all involved in the trainings, determining the number of manuals needed, publishing approximately seventy 230+ page ring-bound manuals, procurement of break foods and lunch catering, and transportation and set-up of presentation equipment for each training.
Certified producers are required to obtain 10 hours of recertification
credit every five years. We have provided six continuing education
sessions for the producers this year. One recertification
training was provided during the SC Pork Conference (2 hours), with others provided in Camden, Lancaster, Orangeburg, and Walterboro. We will be providing these opportunities around the state as the year progresses.
This program is currently completely funded by registration fees
(Training fees of $150 per person; Continuing Education fees of $15
per hour per person), covering manual printing, equipment, and
travel for the instructors. | | Impact | From January 1999 to date we have trained 202 swine producers, 874 poultry producers, 95 dairy producers, one veterinarian, one animal care facility operator, three beef facility operators, two horse facility operators, and 165 Extension, NRCS, SCDHEC, and integrator personnel in 41 one-day training sessions. These sessions were held in 17 different locations around the state. 1,248 actual people have been certified, with
1,279 certifications issued (some growers have more than one species certification).
According to SCDHEC records (and my own) there may be up to 13 swine and 29 poultry producers remaining to be trained as of April 21, 2006. From this point forward we will be offering two trainings during February or March each year to train new producers. |
Last update7/31/2007
This website is maintained by Bryan Smith.
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