The University of Missouri has developed these educational programs to help aid producers:

1) Business Environmental Risk Management (BERM) is an educational program designed to help producers understand and proactively manage their potential environmental risks. BERM is a web-based tool enabling farmers to discover their particular environmental risks and providing information and strategies to manage these risks.

2) Missouri Animal Feeding Operation Site Evaluation Report is an educational tool designed to help producers understand the regulatory, community and environmental issues with a specific location for livestock production.

Farmers begin by locating their farm on a web-based Geographical Information System. They can print an aerial photo map of their land and a report summarizing their individual risks. Reports have links to other web pages that should assist producers to make more intelligent business expansion decisions, reduce environmental liability risks from production activities and prevent legal and regulatory problems.

Links found below are within the different reports developed by these educational tools and resources.

• Introduction to BERM
• Biosecurity Concerns
• Community Sites
• Critical Watersheds
• Endangered Species Information
• Existing Cafos In Analysis Area 12-Digit Hydrologic Unit
• Floodplain
• Groundwater Table Depth
• Hydrologic Units
• Impaired Waters
• Karst Topography & Sinkholes
• Pesticide Use Limitation Areas
• Regulations and Environmental Setbacks
• Slope Classification
• Waterbodies
• Weather Data
• Wells