It is also important that regulations on manure practices credit producers who are marketing their manure products. This is a great innovation. Other states allow marketing to occur, but a producer must still meet the land application requirement and demonstrate that acreage is available to apply the manure at the regulated amount. Using broiler litter as an example, Figure 2 illustrates that higher value manure products allow manure products to be moved off-site economically. Prices of broiler litter for various broiler manure products.
Market demand represents the preferences of manure buyers.
Three traditional manure product markets are fertilizer, feed and energy. Fertilizer is the most common market. If manure is given any beneficial credit, it usually is as a fertilizer. This is the price of the of the bagged manures found at suburban hardware stores. Another market is the feed market.