Missouri dairy manure management can be classified into three systems -- solid, slurry or lagoon -- depending on the collection, transportation and distribution of manure on the fields. These systems are dependent on the ...

Intensively managed grazing systems can be a win-win situation, increasing productivity and profits for the operator and improving water quality for the citizens of Missouri. Like all production enterprises, livestock ...

Missouri beef manure management, usually for feedlots rather than for pasture systems, can be classified into four systems: solid, semisolid, slurry and lagoon (liquid), depending on the solids content, which determines ...

Livestock manure is a potential source of surface and groundwater contamination. Modern livestock production, confining herds in smaller spaces, has increased problems associated with disposing and making use of manure. ...

Most of the beef manure produced in Missouri is dropped on pastures. The purpose of this guide is to compare the economics of three systems for collecting, storing, and transporting beef manure from confined feeding ...

The objective of this publication is to identify the differences and similarities between managing municipal wastewater and managing the manure from grow-finish pig systems.

Major problems with feedlots in Missouri are due to high rainfall, which produces high volumes of runoff that can pollute streams, and muddy dirt lots, which reduce performance. This publication shows ways to reduce the ...

Picket-dam facilities have proven useful for storing semisolid manure. Their design allows excess water from rainfall or other sources to drain away so that the material can be handled with conventional equipment.

The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) conducted two separate analyses of the final decisions on CAP reform in the Agenda 2000 using its models of EU and world agriculture. The FAPRI unit at Iowa State ...

Impact analysis of extending a modified version of the 1990 Farm Bill measured against the FAPRI 1999 U.S. Agricultural Outlook, which incorporates provisions of the 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act.

An analysis of the impacts of three safety net alternatives, (1) A Modified Supplemental Income Payment (MSIP) program, (2) Increased marketing loan rates (LR), and (3) Direct payments in the form of Market Loss Assistance ...

General characteristics of farming operations that will most likely hit payment limits on Loan Deficiency Payments(LDPs)and marketing loan gains.

The analysis estimates the increase in government outlays that would result from increasing 1999 commodity loan rates.

Fast-moving liquids pick up and transport solids, which settle out of the flow when velocity is reduced. Often, settling basins are designed to limit flow velocities to 1.5 feet per second, or less. Settling may remove 35 ...