No People Allowed When Agitating Manure Pits
“Keep people out of the barns when pumping manure pits,” advises Mike Brumm, Brumm Swine Consultancy, Inc., North Mankato, MN. He offers tips for protecting both pigs and people in an online PorkCast webcast ...
Advice for Manure on Alfalfa
Use care when applying manure to alfalfa fields in order to maximize crop benefits, says Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska extension forage specialist. He offers the following tips for successful outcomes...
Center Connects Manure Experts With Producers Nationwide
The Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center at Kansas State University (KSU) connects manure management experts from land-grant universities and federal agencies with livestock producers and their advisors...
Manure Handling Expo Planned for July 9
The continuing rise in chemical fertilizer prices may push crop farmers even more to use manure for their fertilization needs...
Hog Barns Don't Come with Owner's Manuals
An effective operations manual can help barn staffs keep production facilities running smoothly. Pork producers commonly invest hundreds of thousands...
Surface Aerator Makes Lagoon Odor Reduction Affordable
Preliminary results of a new surface aeration system pilot-tested at a 4,800-head, grow-finish operation show it provides an effective and affordable means of handling odors in lagoons...
North Carolina Finalizes Swine Lagoon Ban
The North Carolina Pork Council (NCPC) supports passage of the recently approved Senate Bill 1465, Swine Farm Performance Standards, which places a permanent ban on construction of new swine lagoons....
A Burning Answer for Manure
Transforming manure into energy is hardly a new idea. People have been burning cow chips and chicken dung for centuries...
Pristine on the Prairie
This High Plains hog operation uses an elaborate manure handling system to minimize environmental impact...
It's the Pits!
Taking manure pit samples in deep-pitted barns on several hundred company-owned and contracted farms is a huge task, but the payoff is huge, too...
