After an average moisture spring and a wetter than usual summer, many livestock farmers with out-of-barn manure storage are heading into fall with fuller than desired manure storage levels. 

That makes this the season of compromise: balancing the urgency of full pits with the agronomics of nutrient timing and the logistics of fall application windows. 

It isn’t always easy, but a few key steps can help ensure that manure is used as a resource, not just removed as a...