Suggested Reading

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Livestock Waste Facilities Water Quality
Pollution Control Laws Manure as a Fertilizer
Seepage

Livestock Waste Facilities

LIVESTOCK WASTE FACILITIES HANDBOOK, 2nd Ed.Midwest Plan Service, MWPS-18, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, 1985.

LIVESTOCK WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PLANNING FLOWCHART, John E. Andrews, Soil Conservation Service, Lakewood, Colorado, Meeting Presentation for the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, December 17-20, 1991.

OHIO LIVESTOCK WASTE MANAGEMENT GUIDE, Cooperative Extension Service - Ohio State University, Bulletin 604.

EUROPEAN UPDATE, John Gadd, National Hog Farmer, September 15, 1991, pp 53-54.

HOG MANURE: DEEP-LITTER IDEA CREATES QUITE A STIR, Chet Randolph, National Hog Farmer, January 15, 1991, pp 52-53.

PICKET DAM FOR DRAINING WATER FROM UNCOVERED STORAGES, Agricultural Engineering Information Systems-350, Agricultural Engineering Department, Michigan State University.

DESIGN OF SOLID MANURE STORAGE FOR DAIRY HERDS, C.O. Cramer, J.C. Converse, G.H. Tenpas, and D.A. Schlough, Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1973, pp. 254-260.

PLANNING AND DESIGNING WASTE STORAGE SYSTEMS, Price E. Boesch and Paul W. Koch, Soil CS for Agricultural Waste Conference, East Lansing, Michigan, pp 11-19.

* FARMSTEAD PLANNING FOR EFFICIENT SWINE PRODUCTION, Don D. Jones, David H. Bache, and Arthur J. Meuhling, Cooperative Extension Service ID-162, Purdue University.

* DESIGN AND OPERATION OF LIVESTOCK WASTE LAGOONS, Don D. Jones and Alan L. Sutton, Cooperative Extension Service ID-120, Purdue University

MANURE MANAGEMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Robert E. Graves, editor, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, PA, October 1986.

 

Water Quality

* ANIMAL AGRICULTURE'S EFFECT ON WATER QUALITY, Alan L. Sutton, Cooperative Extension Service WQ-8, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

LIVESTOCK MANURE MANAGEMENT AND GROUND WATER QUALITY, "Best Management Practices to Maintain Ground Water Quality", Alan L. Sutton, Purdue University, Meeting Presentation for the Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Water Quality Seminar, February 28, 1990.

DELAWARE GUIDELINES: MANURE MANAGEMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Cooperative Bulletin #27, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19717-1303.

WATER SUPPLY AND WASTE-WATER DISPOSAL: Chapter27: Disinfection, Destruction of Aquatic Growths, and Removal of Odors and Tastes, Gordon Maskew Fair and John Charles Geyer, John Wiley and Sons, Inc: New York, pp 793-796.

PRIVATE DRINKING WATER, Computer Program, Purdue University, Agricultural Engineering Dept., West Lafayette, IN 47907.

* SUGGESTIONS FOR PREPARING A ZONING ORDINANCE TO REGULATE AND PROTECT CONFINEMENT FEEDING OPERATION, Richard L. Adams, Animal Science Department, Cooperative Extension Service AS-422, Purdue University.


Pollution Control Laws

* LEGAL GUIDELINES FOR SWINE WASTE MANAGEMENT,Donald R. Levi, Texas A&M, and Stephan F. Matthews, University of Missouri, Pork Industry Handbook, Cooperative Extension Service PIH-35, Purdue University.

THE NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PROGRAM FOR LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS, Arthur J. Meuhling, Agricultural Engineering Tips: Farm Buildings No. 31, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

LIVESTOCK ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS -- IN EQUITY AMONG MIDWESTERN STATES? Arthur J. Meuhling, Proceedings of Livestock and the Environment Conference, Illinois State University, 1991.

 


Manure As A Fertilizer

* MANAGING ANIMAL MANURE AS A SOURCE OF PLANT NUTRIENTS, S.D. Klausner, Cornell University; A.D. Mathers, USDA-ARS, Bushland, TX; and A.L. Sutton, Purdue University, National Corn Handbook, Cooperative Extension Service NCH-12, Purdue University.

* HOW AND WHERE TO GET A LIVESTOCK MANURE ANALYSIS,Alan L. Sutton, Purdue University, Cooperative Extension Service Paper No. 227, May 1990.

* UTILIZATION OF ANIMAL MANURE AS FERTILIZER, A.L.Sutton, Animal Science; D.W. Nelson, Agronomy; and D.D. Jones, Agricultural Engineering, Cooperative Extension Service ID-101, Purdue University.

EFFECTS OF HANDLING AND STORAGE SYSTEMS ON MANURE VALUE, J.A. Lindley, D.W. Johnson, and D.J. Clanton, Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 1988 American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Volume 4(3), September 1988, pp. 246-252.

NITROGEN LOSSES DURING THE STORAGE OF LIQUID LIVESTOCK MANURES, T. Dewes, L. Schmitt, U. Valentin, and E. Ahrens, Biological Wastes, Elsevier Science Publications, Ltd., Great Britain, Vol. 31, 1990, pp 241-250.

 


Seepage

SEEPAGE LOSSES AND FERTILIZER PRESERVATION IN MANURE STACKING PRACTICES, T.S. Hsu, C.O. Cramer, and J.C. Converse, University of Wisconsin-Madison, American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper No. 72-442.

 
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