When manure is surface applied to snow-covered or frozen ground, there is an increased risk for manure runoff and consequently nutrient runoff into waterways.
A new version of Wisconsin’s Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast will debut Feb. 1, offering farmers a much more detailed and localized look at the threat of runoff before they plan to spread manure.
With numerous operations and more than 14,000 employees across North Carolina and Virginia, Smithfield has enacted its hurricane preparedness procedures.
In the plot where manure was applied, water reached up to 25 inches into the soil. In contrast, water reached up to 18 inches in the plot where manure was not applied.
This two-day event is an opportunity for livestock producers, professional manure applicators, consultants, specialists and many others to see the advances in the manure management industry.
MAPHEX is not just for cow manure; technology is compatible with swine manure and it probably could work with chicken manure, too, but because the latter is dry, it would have to be diluted before the process could work.