PO 54: Know how to calculate total animal manure production on a livestock farm.

3. Method 3: counting loads

• Works for solid, semi-solid, and liquid manures.
• Requires knowledge of field size and average manure load (tons/load or gal/load).  Apply manure evenly to the whole field, count the loads applied, and calculate rate per acre.

Calibrating manure spreader using weights (image source)