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Environmental Impact of Animal Manure Management

Year of publication 1996

Author L.A.H.M. Verheyen, D. Wiersema and L.W. Hulshoff-Pol, P. Brandjes, P.J. Westra, J.F.F.P. Bos, J.C.M. Jansen;Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In this report, animal manure management is defined as a decision- making process hyphen aiming to combine profitable agricultural production with minimum nutrient losses from manure, for the present and in the future. Good manure management will minimize the negative and stimulate the positive effects on the environment. Emissions to the air of nutrients, organic matter1 and odour, have adverse effects on the environment. The contribution of manure to plant nutrition and build up of soil organi c matter is considered a positive effect. An indirect positive effect is that the use of animal manure may save non-renewable resources used in inorganic fertilizer production.

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