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Swine Wean-to-Finish Buildings
A wean-to-finish building is an all-in-one nursery, grower, and finishing building for swine production. These buildings are one of the newest ways that swine producers have devised to remain competitive in a increasin...
Calculating Manure and Manure Nutrient Application Rates
This publication describes how to estimate the capacity of 3 types of manure spreaders: liquid tank, V-bottom, and a box. ...
Dairy Manure Management Planning
This publication concentrates on the timely application of manure nutrients to crops. It deals with the part of a Manure Management Plan that utilizes manure as a fertilizer. A summary of manure handling options is in...
Implementing Site-Specific Management: Liquid Manure Application
The value of manure in crop production is directly related to how it is managed. There is now the ability to document the amount of manure applied, where and when it was applied, and to avoid application in areas that mi...
This publication discusses the challenges of land application, reducing runoff, minimizing leaching, and developing a nutrient management plan. A table is included listing the steps to help maximize manure nutrient-us...
Runoff Control Systems for Open Livestock Feedlots
Runoff from open feedlots must be controlled so that it does not enter a stream. Settling basins and infiltration channels are simple, effective, economical means of runoff control. This publication discusses design, and...
Basics of Energy Production through Anaerobic Digestion of Livestock Manure
Bioenergy generated from diversified sources provides local and emerging opportunities to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and petroleum-based fuels. This publication describes the basics of anaerobic digestion as a ...
Management Tips for Spring Manure Applications
As plans for planting and getting into fields accelerate in spring, preparing ahead for manure application will help to streamline the process, insure proper nutrient application rates to support anticipated crop yields,...
Nutrient Management for Livestock Operations
This two–page PDF emphasizes that manure from livestock operations can be a valuable resource. It describes how livestock producers can handle and apply manure to cropland to get the benefit of the nutrients it con...
Animal Agriculture's Effect on Water Quality Waste Storage
This publication discusses lagoons and earthen pits, holding ponds, solid waste storage, composting, and location associated with animal agriculture's effect on water quality.
...Swine Manure Management Planning
This publication concentrates on the timely application of manure nutrients to crops. It deals with the part of a Manure Management Plan that utilizes manure as fertilizer. A summary of manure handling options is inc...
Animal Agriculture's Effect on Water Quality: Pastures and Feedlots
This bulletin discusses possible water pollution problems from pasture and feedlot systems and the management practices needed to protect water supplies....
Animal Manure as a Plant Nutrient Resource
Manure is no longer a liability; it is an asset to be stored and applied in a way that maximizes nutrient value. Land application of animal manure provides a hedge against the high price of commercial fertilizers. Thi...
Poultry Manure Management Planning
Proper handling, storage, and application of manure from poultry operations will protect Indiana's water resources. It can also increase profits of bird and crop enterprises. Here we bring together information about ...
Estimating Manure Spreader Capacity
This publication describes how to estimate the capacity of three types of manure spreaders: liquid tank, V-bottom, and a box....
Drought and Nutrient Management Considerations for Dairy Farms
Drought can affect dairy farms long after the dry spell is over. That is especially true when it comes to the manure applied to crop fields and the rate at which it is applied. This publication offers tips for fertilizin...
Anaerobic Digestion Technology: Fair Oaks
This publication, part of a series on anaerobic digestion technology in Indiana, describes technology used at Fair Oaks Dairy Farms in ...
Anaerobic Digestion Technology: Windy Ridge Dairy
This publication, part of a series on anaerobic digestion technology in Indiana, describes technology used at Windy Ridge Dairy.
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Anaerobic Digestion Technology: Waste No Energy
This publication, part of a series on anaerobic digestion technology in Indiana, describes the Waste No Energy system used by Waste No Energy LLC east of Monticello in White County.
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Additive Products for Manure Treatment
More than 50 commercial manure additive products are currently available in North America. This publication by two Purdue professors, the first in a series called "Manure Management, Treatment, and Utilization," provi...
Manure Management, Treatment, and Utilization: Manure Characteristics, Testing, and Sampling
Livestock and poultry manure is a byproduct that can be a valuable resource - or a liability if not managed and utilized appropriately. This is the second of a series of publications: Manure Management, Treatment, and Ut...