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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...
 
Publisher Texas Water Resources Institute
 
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;
 
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