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Sizing Dairy Manure Holding Pond

 
 

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  • All laboratory results should be based on 100% dry matter basis.
  • All nutrient should be entered  as ppm or percent.
  • If the nutrient is reported as percent, enter the value as a whole number.  For example, a value of twenty five percent should be entered as 25 not as 0.25
  • Macro mineral may be reported as milliequivalents (meq).  The program multiplies the meq values by the following factors to convert to ppm:
    • Calcium, 20
    • Magnesium, 12.2
    • Sodium, 23
    • Chloride, 35.5
  • Divide pounds of phosphorus applied by 0.44 to convert to P2O2.
  • Divide pounds of potassium applied by 0.83 to convert to K2O.

 


 
 
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