Completed Competitive Grant

Socio-technical and environmental dimensions of swine manure management decisions

Project ID: 1999-69

Abstract

Once strictly a farm management concern, manure management is now a matter of state and societal interest. This qualitative study examines why and how farmers in two Iowa watersheds make decisions about manure management for their operations. Farmers interviewed explained the motives, logic, opportunities, and constraints that guide their use of particular management practices.

Lead investigator: Clare Hinrichs, ISU Sociology, et al

Year of grant completion: 2001

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Nutrient management

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