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The Expanding Dairy Industry: Impact on Ground Water Quality and Quantity with Emphasis on Waste Management System Evaluation for Open Lot Dairies

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Title The Expanding Dairy Industry: Impact on Ground Water Quality and Quantity with Emphasis on Waste Management System Evaluation for Open Lot Dairies
Creator Sweeten, John M. Wolfe, Mary Leigh
Description Major expansion of the dairy industry has occurred in the last 12 years in North Central Texas, especially in Erath County. For several decades, this area has been the location of small dairy farms with sufficient land to maintain low animal densities on pastures except during milking operations. Today, however, new dairy operations are typically much larger (500-1,000 or more head) and maintain milking and dry cattle in open lots or corrals on small areas relative to the number of cows, in a...
Date 2007-11-30T21:15:49Z 2007-11-30T21:15:49Z 1993-08
Type Technical Report
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/6173
Language en_US
Relation TR-155;
Publisher Texas Water Resources Institute

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