SWINE BIO-GAS BASE STUDY FOR NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI:
An Assessment of Commercial Swine Operations and Biomass Energy Potential

Credits

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgment
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Chapter 1. Executive Summary
Chapter 2. Introduction to the Study
Chapter 3. Socio-economic Overview to the Region
Chapter 4. General Description of Swine Farming, Marketing and Processing, Potentials for Improvement
Chapter 5. Study Methodology, Work-plan and Implementation
Chapter 6. Forecast of Hog Production and Revenue from Typical Swine Farms in Northwest Mississippi
Section 6.1. Introducing the ANPOP Program and Using It to Forecast Hog Production
Section 6.2. Results for ANPOP Per Year, Also Hogs for Slaughtering
And Revenue
Section 6.3. Potential Hogs for Pork from New Swine-units in
An Expansion Program
Chapter 7. Bio-gas Potential of Swine-Manure in Northwest Mississippi
Section 7.1. Environmental Problems of Swine Farming, And General Recommendations
Section 7.2. Producing Methane Gas and By-products From Swine Manure
Section 7.3. Methane Potential of Swine-Manure in Northwest-Mississippi
Section 7.4. Estimate of Manure from the Typical Swine-producing Unit Over the Next Five (5) Years
Section 7.5. Amount of Manure Expected from New Swine Units in an Agro-industry Program
Section 7.6 Estimate of Methane Potential of the Existing Swine-Units and New Ones

References

Appendices
Appendix 1. Terms of Reference (TOR) of the Consultants
Appendix 2. Copy of Questionnaire Used in the Investigation
Appendix 3. Input Table from Swine Farm Survey Data
Appendix 4. ANPOP Input and Output Tables