Missouri Nutrient Management Plan
Document Generators

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University of Missouri has worked with NRCS and Missouri DNR to develop nutrient management plans that meet their needs and the needs of farmers.  The plan templates have been integrated into document generators that can be loaded into Purdue's Manure Management Planner (MMP).  Once correctly installed the document generator will automatically generate much of the Missouri nutrient management plan.

We have developed templates for two types of plans:

  • Manure and Commercial Fertilizer Nutrient Management Plan for operations that use both manure and commercial fertilizer to fertilizer crops.

  • Commercial Fertilizer Nutrient Management Plan for operations that use only commercial fertilizer on crops.

In all document generators MMP will automatically complete data entry for most tables in the plan.  The document generator will create an MSWord document that the planner can edit to complete any missing information and compete any additional editing.  There will also be places where the planner will need to pick from a list of options to complete some of the tables created by the document generator.

The Missouri Document Generators supplement other document generators packaged with MMP.  The National CNMP template may be of interest. MMP users should look at different templates and determine which ones meet their needs.  You have the option of cutting and pasting data out of multiple templates to create your own format for a nutrient management plan.

The document generators have not been tested with Microsoft 2007 software. It was designed to work with Microsoft 2003 software.

Manure Management Planner (MMP) is a product of Purdue University. 

Questions?  Contact John Lory.

Manure and Commercial Fertilizer Nutrient Management Plan
Document Generator

Manure and Commercial Fertilizer Nutrient Management Plan document generator is for operations that use both manure and commercial fertilizer to fertilizer crops.  See below for instructions on how handle the downloaded files and make them accessible to MMP.

The document generator creates four separate documents:

  1. Data checker that makes sure the MMP file has all the needed data for the document generator.

  2. A plan summary that provides an overview of the plan.

  3. Farmer plan including yearly, field-by-field recommendations for manure and fertilizer management.  The year-one farmer plan includes lime recommendations.  This document is tailored to provide key information to the farmer on the dates, location and rates of application of manure and fertilizer.

  4. Nutrient Management Plan verification including plan summary and farm inventory.  This extensive document has most anything a reviewer may want but it is extensive enough it may be difficult to find.

DOWN LOAD Zipped file (~1.7MB)  ver. 23.21.2003

Known issues:

  • The summary plan and verification plan do not complete all the tables correctly, particularly with solid manure sources (poultry litter).  Most issues are with nutrient balance calculations.

  • Not tested with Microsoft 2007.

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Commercial Fertilizer Nutrient Management Plan
Document Generator

Commercial Fertilizer Nutrient Management Plan document generator is for operations that use only commercial fertilizer to fertilizer crops. See below for instructions on how handle the downloaded files and make them accessible to MMP.

The document generator contains three separate parts:

  1. Data checker that makes sure the MMP file has all the needed data for the document generator.

  2. Farmer plan including yearly, field-by-field recommendations for manure and fertilizer management.  The year-one farmer plan includes lime recommendations.  This document is tailored to provide key information to the farmer on the dates, location and rates of application of fertilizer.

  3. Nutrient Management Plan verification including plan summary and farm inventory.  This extensive document has most anything a reviewer may want but it is extensive enough it may be difficult to find.

DOWN LOAD Zipped file (~0.8MB)  ver. 1.09.2003

Known issues:

  • Not tested with Microsoft 2007.

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Tutorial: How to use Missouri document generators

This tutorial summarizes the basic steps for downloading and using Missouri document generators in MMP.

This tutorial is a PowerPoint presentation that has been compressed for viewing on your web browser.

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