The number of survey respondents reporting that they stored manure varies by type of farm operation within each ecozone. Table 6 presents a summary of farms by ecozone and farm type that reported storing manure. The estimates refer to the number of farms that store manure either as a liquid or in solid form. Results for tobacco farms were confidential. Manure storage refers to both liquid and solid manure.
Some farms have both liquid and solid manure storage.
Statistics Canada, Farm Inputs Management Survey, 1995. Figure 11 provides a breakdown by ecozone showing the proportion of farms reporting that they stored liquid manure. For the Prairies, hog operations were the highest users of liquid manure facilities, accounting for half of the farms reporting liquid manure storage for the ecozone. Grain and oilseed operations accounted for about a third of the farms reporting liquid manure storage in the Prairies ecozone. Table 7 contains the percentages of farms, by farm type and ecozone, that reported liquid manure storage.