Completed Competitive Grant

Optimizing swine hoop manure management of soil quality and crop system performance

Project ID: 2000-42

Abstract

What is the best way to deal with manure from hoop hog structures and other deep-bedding systems? This study offers agronomic and economic data to help farmers make a sound manure management decision.

Lead investigator: Tom Richard, ISU Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, et al

Year of grant completion: 2003

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

Topics: Nutrient management

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