Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Online
    • Archive
    • Subject Collections
  • Info For
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Subscribers
    • Advertisers
  • About
    • About JSWC
    • Editorial Board
    • Permissions
    • Alerts
    • RSS Feeds
    • Contact Us

User menu

  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Online
    • Archive
    • Subject Collections
  • Info For
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Subscribers
    • Advertisers
  • About
    • About JSWC
    • Editorial Board
    • Permissions
    • Alerts
    • RSS Feeds
    • Contact Us
  • Follow SWCS on Twitter
  • Visit SWCS on Facebook
Research ArticleResearch Section

Theoretical analysis of manure transport distance as a function of herd size and landscape fragmentation

K. D. Bartelt and W. L. Bland
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation September 2007, 62 (5) 345-352;
K. D. Bartelt
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
W. L. Bland
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • References
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

ABSTRACT:

Fragmentation of the agricultural landscape increases the distance that manure from confined livestock must be transported in order to be properly recycled. We used simple theoretical models to investigate how this distance is impacted by landscape fragmentation and herd size. An expression for manure distribution cost as a function of farm attributes (herd size, manure spreader capacity, crop phosphorus removal, and manure quantity and phosphorus concentration) was applied to three landscape models with which manure-hauling distances were derived. The landscape models were an analytical expression that assumed manure could be distributed radially from the barn, a randomly generated farm neighborhood model, and actual landscapes of three Wisconsin counties. The model yielded estimates of the distance that a herd's manure must be transported to equal crop removal as a function of the fraction of adjacent land available for manure spreading. The fraction of land unavailable for spreading had little effect on total manure hauling distance until this fraction fell below about 0.4 (depending on herd size), after which it increased dramatically. From purely geometric considerations, a diseconomy of scale resulted with manure hauling distance and herd size. Finally, when 30% of the farmland in a county was made unavailable for manure recycling, it made little difference if the removed parcels were spatially random or clustered into fewer and larger areas.

Footnotes

  • Kyle D. Bartelt is a research assistant and William L. Bland is a professor in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.

  • Copyright 2007 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society

This article requires a subscription to view the full text. If you have a subscription you may use the login form below to view the article. Access to this article can also be purchased.

Log in using your username and password

Forgot your user name or password?

Purchase access

You may purchase access to this article. This will require you to create an account if you don't already have one.
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 62 (5)
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Vol. 62, Issue 5
September/October 2007
  • Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents (PDF)
  • About the Cover
  • Index by author
  • Front Matter (PDF)
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Theoretical analysis of manure transport distance as a function of herd size and landscape fragmentation
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
3 + 3 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
Citation Tools
Theoretical analysis of manure transport distance as a function of herd size and landscape fragmentation
K. D. Bartelt, W. L. Bland
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Sep 2007, 62 (5) 345-352;

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Request Permissions
Share
Theoretical analysis of manure transport distance as a function of herd size and landscape fragmentation
K. D. Bartelt, W. L. Bland
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Sep 2007, 62 (5) 345-352;
del.icio.us logo Digg logo Reddit logo Twitter logo Facebook logo Google logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
  • References
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • Effects of a livestock manure windrow composting site with a fly ash pad surface and vegetative filter strip buffers on sediment, nitrate, and phosphorus losses with runoff
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • Phytoremediation and high rainfall combine to improve soil and plant health in a North America Northern Great Plains saline sodic soil
  • Combining a saltation impact sensor and a wind tunnel to explore wind erosion processes–A case study in the Zhundong mining area, Xinjiang, China
  • Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms
Show more Research Section

Similar Articles

Content

  • Current Issue
  • Early Online
  • Archive
  • Subject Collections

Info For

  • Authors
  • Reviewers
  • Subscribers
  • Advertisers

Customer Service

  • Subscriptions
  • Permissions and Reprints
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy

SWCS

  • Membership
  • Publications
  • Meetings and Events
  • Conservation Career Center

© 2022 Soil and Water Conservation Society