The Dairy Effluent Storage Calculator (DESC) is designed to provide science-based and farm specific recommendations for the size of a dairy effluent storage facility, to enable deferred and/or deficit irrigation (storing effluent until conditions are suitable for application). This Farmfact summarises how the DESC works and the information which it can provide.
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