Economic comparison of liquid manure transport and land application

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 743-758

  Hadrich, J C ^a   Harrigan, T M ^b   Wolf, C A ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Land application; Machinery management; Manure management; Tank spreader

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION COST; DAIRY FARMS; DECISION TOOL; ECONOMIC COMPARISONS; FIELD OPERATION; LAND APPLICATIONS; LIQUID MANURE; MACHINERY COSTS; MACHINERY MANAGEMENT; MANURE APPLICATIONS; MANURE MANAGEMENT; MANURE NUTRIENTS; MANURE TRANSPORT; NUTRIENT VALUES; P REMOVAL; ROAD TRANSPORTS; SLURRY INJECTION; SOIL PHOSPHORUS; TANK CAPACITY; TANK SPREADER; TWO TRACTORS;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AUTOMOBILES; CROPS; FARMS; LIQUIDS; NURSING; NUTRIENTS; OPERATING COSTS; PHOSPHORUS; PUMPS; SLURRIES; SOILS; SPREADERS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TRACTORS (TRUCK); TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

MANURES;

EID: 78649371824     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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