Welcome - Nitrogen Management on Dairy Farms

Efficient nitrogen (N) management on dairy farms is key to profitable and environmentally sound farm operation.

This web site is designed to deliver background information and management guidelines for efficient N use throughout the dairy farm system, including:

• Crop & soil N management.
• Feed storage N management.
• Herd N management.
• Manure storage N management.

The N Management on Dairy Farms web site has been developed by researchers and extension educators at Cornell University (Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and Department of Animal Science), the Animal Manure and By-Products Laboratory of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Maryland), and the University of Vermont (Department of Plant and Soil Science). Funding for the project was provided by the Fund for Rural America.

To begin, click the navigation tree to the left or one of the major subject areas within the whole farm cycle to the right.