While this program did not require water quality monitoring, some general calculations were made on the total amount of manure that was now being properly managed. There were nine manure bunkers constructed as part of the demonstration site projects. This equates to a total of approximately 1,363,275 lbs/year of livestock manure that is now being managed so as to reduce impacts on water quality. Manure bunkers are just one of fifteen different BMPs implemented with funding through the Livestock and Land program that have contributed to reductions in water pollutants from livestock facilities.
A follow-up survey of summer 2005 Livestock and Land workshop attendees highlighted the effects of education and outreach. Over a quarter of the attendees surveyed had voluntarily implemented at least one Best Management Practice that they learned at the workshops and eighteen of them took advantage of the free on-site consultation offered by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) . The types of projects include starting a compost pile, adding gutters and downspouts to stalls, improving manure management, planting pastures and new erosion and drainage controls.