Virginia Farmstead Assessment System*

Fact Sheet No. 6 Fertilizer Storage, Handling, and Management

Fact Sheet And Worksheet No. 6 were modified by Eugene M. Daniel, Virginia Cooperative Extension-Gloucester County, and Marcus M. Alley, Crop and Soil Environmental Science Department, Virginia Tech.

Technical Reviewers: Kathy Dictor, Jonathan (Jay) R. Crane and Nancy K. Cook, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Richmond, Virginia.

Publication Number 442-906, June 1996

Factsheet No. 6: Fertilizer Storage, Handling, and Management


Figure 1: Farm-sized fertilizer facility. (Source: Modular Concrete Wash/Containment Pad for Agricultural Chemicals, by R.T. Noyes and D.W. Kammel. American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper Number 89-1613, St. Joseph, MI.)

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