Effects of age of cattle, turning technology and compost environment on disappearance of bone from mortality compost

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 100, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 4417-4422

  Stanford, K ^a   Hao, X ^b   Xu, S ^a,c   McAllister, T A ^b   Larney, F ^b   Leonard, J J ^c  

^a ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^b LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bone; Cattle; Mortality compost

Indexed keywords

BEEF MANURE; CATTLE; DRY MATTERS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MORTALITY COMPOST; TURNING TECHNOLOGIES; TWO SECTION;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; BONE; MANURES; MEATS; WASTE TREATMENT;

COMPOSTING;

AGE; BARLEY; BONE; CATTLE; COMPOST; MANURE; MORTALITY; STRAW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TILLAGE;

AGE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; BEEF; BONE; CATTLE; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; MANURE; MOISTURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAW; TEMPERATURE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CATTLE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIPHYSES; HINDLIMB; ORGAN SIZE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL;

BOS; BOVINAE; HORDEUM;

EID: 63449122876     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2008.11.061     Document Type: Article

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