Excerpt from Alternatives for Dairy Manure Management Twelve - month slurry storages were more effective in meeting the loss constraints than were the 6 - month storages. Although the systems conserve nutrients equally during storage, many nutrients from the fall application of the 6-month storage were lost from the field before plants could use them in the spring. The most effective 6-month storage system for water quality protection was the one that lost nitrogen during storage (the uncovered solid system). This volatilization loss in storage reduced the nitrogen availability for runoff and percolate' losses over the winter months from the fall application. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The livestock and poultry industries continue to consolidate at a substantial rate and the need for safe and effective manure storage and treatment has never been more important. Managing Livestock Wastes to Preserve Environmental Quality focuses on several crucial aspects including: * Dead animal storage * Solid-liquid separation *Anaerobic and aerobic treatment *Alternatives to manure application to crop and pastureland