1. Summary of How Fertilizer Dealers Integrated Manure into Their Nutrient Management Programs

Two fertilizer dealers established manure brokerages in Ohio in the spring of 1992. One was in Holrnes County in Northeast Ohio with Progressive Crop Service, an independent fertilker dealer. This county is in an area which has a high concentration of poultry located in the eastern part of the county. Most of the row crop agriculture is in the western side of the county. The terrain is rolling and this is an Amish community which tends to have small fkms. The second site is in Darke County in western...