Dairy Today, November 8th, 2007
Byline: Jim Dickrell
New software estimates the true cost of disposal
by Jim Dickrell
Whether you milk 100 cows or 1,000, moving manure from farm to field is an expensive proposition.
Exactly how much is unknown. The rule of thumb over the past decade has been about 0.7Acents/gal.
But a bit of detective work by two college interns for AgStar Financial Services in Baldwin, Wis., shows that could be off by as much as 90%.
aCLThe analysis completed thus far has shown great variances in both cost of disposal and the amount being disposed of on a per-cow basis,aCY says Steve Bodart, senior ...
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