Annual volume and solids (nutrient) content are usually the determining factors. Liquids with high solids content (i.e., waste storage pond slurry) are generally limited to one annual low-volume application to a particular field and crop. An easily portable application system that can cover large acreages with a low application rate works best (the honey wagon or tanker with or without injection). However, lagoon wastewater with low solids content can generally be applied in larger volumes a number of times to the same field/crop each year. A system that stays in the field and is ready to operate on short notice (an irrigation system) may be best for this situation. It is easier and less expensive to pump large volumes of water than to haul it by wagon/tanker/truck.
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Why use irrigation instead of honey wagons or liquid tankers (with or without injection) to land-apply wastewater or liquid wastes from an animal waste storage pond or treatment lagoon?
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