Current day large animal facilities generate more manure than they need on their own feed production areas. Excessive … importance. Our model contributes to literature by i) differentiating (the impacts of) manure regulation between the livestock …

farms to export livestock manure to off-farm acres. The regulation compliance cost depends on the willingness of neighboring … crop producers to accept or pay for the manure. This study estimates a manure willingness-to-pay distribution for crop … literature, which shows that manure willingness to pay is left-skewed. Most crop producers in our sample will pay a positive …

are analyzed for a Virginia dairy. Manure applications may cause nitrogen losses through runoff and leaching because of … factors such as uncertain nitrogen mineralization. Farmers can reduce nitrogen control costs by applying manure on soils with …

Three manure application limits (N Limit, Annual P Limit and P Banking) were modeled with particular attention to the … number of hours needed to appropriately distribute manure. The benefit and costs estimates indicated that P Banking was more … Annual P Limit also increased the probability of a runoff event following manure application, relative to the other two …

Methane digesters—biogas recovery systems that use methane from manure to generate electricity—have not been widely … greenhouse gas emissions from manure management. A policy or program that pays producers for these emission reductions—through a … manure management methods, along with electricity and carbon prices, could influence methane digester profits. The model …

particular an increase of biogas production based on agricultural residues such as manure is regarded as beneficial. Although … on cultivated energy crops. The predominant part of the accruing manure is not used yet. In this paper, therefore, the … need for additional promotion of energetic use of manure is discussed. The results based on literature values and …