Crop Nutrient Needs Potentially Supplied by Livestock in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana

Erda Wang, Bruce Babcock and Terrance Hurley

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications from Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University

Abstract: Midwestern agriculture is moving toward large, specialized production units where harvested crops are shipped off the farm and livestock are raised on purchased feed. Many people are concerned that increased manure concentration from specialized livestock units poses an unacceptable environmental risk. The unequal distribution of livestock production across counties in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana suggests that a disaggregated analysis of crop nutrient use and manure nutrient supply is needed to estimate the risk of excess nutrient losses to the environment. The authors analyze nutrient use and supply at the county level.

Date: 1998-07
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.card.iastate.edu/products/publications/pdf/98wp194.pdf Full Text (application/pdf)
https://www.card.iastate.edu/products/publications/synopsis/?p=227 Online Synopsis (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ias:cpaper:98-wp194

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications from Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().