Antibiotic Losses in Runoff and Drainage from Manure-applied Fields
Principal Investigator: Satish Gupta, Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
Additional Staff: Ashok Singh, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory; Kuldip Kumar, Anita Thompson, and David Thoma, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota
USGS-WRRI 104G National Grants Competition
September 2001 - September 2003
The objective of this research is to quantify the effects of liquid swine manure application on antibiotic and nutrient (N and P) losses via surface runoff and subsurface drainage under a conventional (moldboard plowing) and a conservation (chisel plowing) tillage system. The field experiment is set up at the University of Minnesota Southwest Research and Outreach Center, Lamberton, Minnesota.