Conservation Practices
Minnesota Conservation Funding Guide

Dead animal composting involves specialized on-farm facilities and practices to completely compost livestock/poultry carcasses on the farm or safely store them until they can be removed for off-farm disposal.

Similar & related practices

• Dead animal composting is best used with roof runoff management and clean water diversions to protect water quality by diverting runoff water around and away from composting facilities.
• A similar practice covered by this Conservation Funding Guide is manure composting.

More information

Guidance from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service

• MN practice standard: Animal Mortality Facility (316)

Other resources

• Composting Animal Mortalities - MN Dept of Agriculture & partner organizations 
• Composting - Carcass Disposal - MN Board of Animal Health
• Livestock Carcass Disposal - MN Pollution Control Agency

Contact

See contacts for specific programs that fund this practice in the side-by-side payment comparison or contact your local Soil and Water Conservation District