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How Far Can Poultry Litter Go? A New Technology for Litter Transport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

R.I. Carreira ,
K.B. Young ,
H.L. Goodwin Jr  and
E.J. Wailes
R.I. Carreira
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
K.B. Young
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
E.J. Wailes
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
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Abstract

Exporting northwest Arkansas excess turkey and broiler litter to partially fertilize nutrient-deficient cropland in eastern Arkansas can be more cost effective than to supply all crop nutrients with chemical fertilizer only, given current high fertilizer prices. Cost savings are greater if litter is baled in ultraviolet resistant plastic and transported via truck, since backhaul opportunities reduce truck rates, or alternatively, if raw litter is shipped via a truck-barge combination. Rice is the crop that allows for greater savings according to a mathematical programming model implemented in General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS).

Keywords

baling poultry litterbarge transportationcost minimizationmanure managementmathematical programmingnutrient surpluspoultry littertruck transportationC61C65Q12Q30Q53
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , December 2007 , pp. 611 - 623
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2007

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