Construction Resource Use of Two Different Types and Scales of Iowa Swine Production Facilities

June 2010

P.J. Lammers, M.S. Honeyman, J.D. Harmon, J.B. Kliebenstein, M.J. Helmers

This study, published in Applied Engineering in Agriculture, is related to a Leopold Center Ecology Initiative grant that studied energy use and nutrient cycling in pig production systems.

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