Any way you measure it, Iowa is a livestock juggernaut. It is a top 10 state for dairy production, No. 1 in egg and hog production, in the top 10 for turkeys, and just outside the top 10 for beef cattle. That’s a lot of critters and mountains of manure.
Featured
Manure equipment scales up with new offerings
1 of 2
The Deere Harvest Lab 3000 manure consistency allows customers to apply manure based on a targeted nutrient level. It works with both drag line and tank spreaders.
Natasha Rayne, a professor of soil science at the University of Wisconsin, is studying how to best unlock the nutrients found in manure. Manure has been applied to crops for thousands of years.