Services we provide
Agriculture
GZA assists agricultural clients in the complex work of growing, harvesting, and transporting food while maintaining sustainable agricultural practices.
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Agriculture faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the 21st century, as changing climates and markets change how our food supply is grown, harvested, and brought to the table. GZA's agricultural engineering consultants and deep network of staff in multiple disciplines offer technical capabilities and guidance across the entire season, from locating water supplies through creating more sustainable supply chains.
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Dairy operations are presented with a wide range of challenges in regulation, climate, geography, hydrology, and the public interest.
GZA incorporates new techniques and works with industry and government to assist dairies in their compliance work. Our staff helps dairy farms document and mitigate their environmental impacts, provides monitoring tools to help dairies stay in compliance, and assists in nutrient management and other controls.
- Facility inspections
- Mapping
- Environmental compliance
- Agricultural environmental services
Whether scattered across a range or located in a concentrated feeding area, livestock operations and their herds face new climate and new regulations.
The water and food demands of livestock, as well as the nutrient cycle, are subject to public scrutiny and GZA’s staff work with livestock operations to delineate the regulatory requirements and possible impacts of herds as they travel.
- Livestock facility design
- Regulatory research and reporting
- CAFO
Renewable energy and other synergies for farmland can help farms generate revenue and give back to the community.
Agri-solar, wind turbines, and emerging technologies present new revenue streams for farms, yet need careful study and agricultural project management. GZA’s extensive experience in renewable energy can help farmers determine the right mix of land use to maximize productivity and sustainability.
- Agricultural development
- Agricultural environmental services
- Renewable energy services
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CAFOweb™ stores and analyzes data and prints compliance reports for sustainable land application rates, water quality, lagoon water chemistry, metered discharge to lagoons, crop irrigation, inspections, water rights and more. CAFOweb™ is a web-based nutrient application forecasting system that provides real time management tools to the CAFO operator for sustainable land application of lagoon water, manure, and fertilizers at agronomic rates.
CAFOweb™ is a unique concept developed by a team of agricultural, bioinformatics, hydrogeology, and water rights professionals with years of CAFO field experience and a thorough understanding of state and federal regulations. CAFOweb™ was successfully tested at CAFOs in NM and NV and over-application issues were significantly reduced during 2010-2011.
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