Estimates of animal manure (solid material) and slurry (liquid material) stored on farms are needed by
\nthe Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food (MAFF) for compiling national inventories of gaseous
\nemissions . Data needed for this purpose include the total volume and surface area of stored manures and slurries from dif ferent livestock species . Existing sources of data were reviewed but have limitations in the context of an emissions inventory . Suppliers of prefabricated stores were approached for numbers and sizes of stores sold since 1970 . ADAS pollution control consultants made informed estimates of the geographic distribution of methods of storage in use in England & Wales for manure and slurry from dairy cows , other cattle and pigs . This information was combined with June 1992 census figures to provide estimates of volumes (raw and diluted) and exposed surface areas of stored manures and slurries . ADAS livestock consultants were used to interpret census data and provide estimates of the distribution of poultry manure handling methods . A computer spreadsheet was used to store and process this data and is available to allow future adjustments or sensitivity analyses . In this paper , these estimates are reported on a national basis but they were originally gathered separately for each of 15 areas and appended to a report produced for MAFF . These detailed figures are available on request . The majority of diluted livestock slurry is stored in earth-banked lagoons , with an estimated total volume of 15.5 Mm 3 and an estimated surface area of 7.0 Mm 2 . The total volume of stored solid manure is 14.9 Mm 3 with an estimated surface area of 11.9 Mm 2 .
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Estimates of animal manure (solid material) and slurry (liquid material) stored on farms are needed by the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food (MAFF) for compiling national inventories of gaseous emissions . Data needed for this purpose include the total volume and surface area of stored manures and slurries from dif ferent livestock species […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8882,640,1813,2854,45,25122,313,314,562,316,112,355,169,320,10859,14,33,16262,424,138,17743,5269,1533,210,4467,309,1422,20911,4874,18011,6053,1814],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-al","tag-animal","tag-area","tag-bin","tag-dairy","tag-eet","tag-emission","tag-emissions","tag-farms","tag-gas","tag-handling","tag-lagoon","tag-manure","tag-manure-handling","tag-nat","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-pl","tag-pollution","tag-poultry","tag-prod","tag-report","tag-size","tag-slurry","tag-species","tag-storage","tag-surface","tag-t","tag-tan","tag-tot","tag-use","tag-volume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5933,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}