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Trends and Developments in Hog Manure Management: 1998-2009

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  • Key, Nigel
  • McBride, William D.
  • Ribaudo, Marc
  • Sneeringer, Stacy

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In the past decade, hog production has increasingly become consolidated, with larger operations producing a greater volume of hog manure on smaller areas. With less cropland for spreading the manure, hog farmers may be compensating through more effective manure management. The authors use data from 1998 to 2009 collected in three national surveys of hog farmers. Over this period, structural changes in the hog sector altered how manure is stored and handled. Changes to the Clean Water Act, State regulations, and local confl icts over air quality also affected manure management decisions. The fi ndings further suggest that environmental policy has infl uenced conservation-compatible manure management practices. The authors examine how the use of nutrient management plans and of practices such as controlled manure application rates vary with scale of production and how these practices changed over the study period. This report is an update of an earlier report, Changes in Manure Management in the Hog Sector: 1998-2004.

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  • Key, Nigel & McBride, William D. & Ribaudo, Marc & Sneeringer, Stacy, 2011. "Trends and Developments in Hog Manure Management: 1998-2009," Economic Information Bulletin 291944, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersib:291944
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.291944
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    1. Stacy Sneeringer & Nigel Key & Shirley Pon, 2018. "Do Nutrient Management Plans Actually Manage Nutrients? Evidence from a Nationally‐Representative Survey of Hog Producers," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 40(4), pages 632-652, December.
    2. Dan Liu & Jia You & Rongbo Wang & Haiyan Deng, 2022. "Agricultural Production Optimization and Marginal Product Response to Climate Change," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-13, September.
    3. Sneeringer, Stacy, 2016. "Comparing Participation in Nutrient Trading by Livestock Operations to Crop Producers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed," Economic Research Report 249772, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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