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. Results for tobacco farms and greenhouse and nursery farms were confidential. The numbers in the table refer to the percentage of farms with manure storage that report liquid manure storage.
Some farms have both liquid and solid manure storage.
Statistics Canada, Farm Inputs Management Survey, 1995. Top Liquid Manure Storage Methods Figure 12 summarizes the different liquid manure storage methods in each ecozone for farms reporting that they stored liquid manure in 1995. The remaining respondents used other methods of liquid storage. Liquid storage methods differed among regions. Tanks below slatted floors were not reported in this ecozone.