Robert J Meinen
- Assistant Research Professor
- Email rjm134@psu.edu
Publications
How much does that bale weigh?
Penn State Extension, Barkley, Melanie, Meinen, Robert, 2025
Manure Separation Facilities
Penn State Extension, Swope, Sarah, Meinen, Robert, 2025
Comparing States’ Manure Handler Certifications
Lancaster Farming, Meinen, Robert, 2025
A certification cookie cutter doesn’t exist
Journal of Nutrient Management, Meinen, Robert, 2025
Spatiotemporal trends and driving forces of pig production in China and the United States
Earth Critical Zone, Yue, Zhao, Zhaohai, Bai, Meinen, Robert, Jiafa, Luo, Lin, Ma, 2025
Soil nitrate testing gets a facelift
Journal of Nutrient Management, Meinen, Robert, 2025
Manure handling certification programs in manuresheds across the United States.
Proceedings of 2025 Waste to Worth Conference. Boise, Idaho, Flynn, K., Erb, Kevin, Meinen, Robert, Yost, Jenifer, Inaoka, Mirai, Spiegal, Sheri, 2025
Manure Spills Response in Pennsylvania
Brochure developed with PA Agricultural Ombudsman Program, Meinen, Robert, Dehoff, Shelly, 2025
Manure Spreading in Pennsylvania
Brochure developed with PA Agricultural Ombudsman Program, Meinen, Robert, Dehoff, Shelly, 2025
The Do’s and Don’ts of In-Field Manure Stacking. Penn State Extension., Meinen, Robert, 2024
Manure Management Plan Overview and Connections to Resources. Penn State Extension., Meinen, Robert, 2024
Hangzhou Joint Statement. Advancing U.S.-China Cooperation on Nitrogen Management and N2O Reduction for Climate Action. Action statement from joint U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Conference. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China., Davidson, Eric, Dennison, William, Gu, Baojing, Ti, Chaopa, Wang, Yanyu, Yan, Xiaoyuan, Zhang, Xin, Chen, Deli, Lam, Shu, Liang, Dong, Meinen, Robert, Zhu, Yongguan, Chen, Yi, Cheng, Luxi, Ouping, Deng, Dong, Jingjing, Duan, Jiakun, Huang, Jingwen, Gang, Li, Zhinguang, Liu, Ren, Chenchen, 2024
Penn State Releases New Pre-sidedress Nitrate Test for Corn., Meinen, Robert, 2024
State Level Manure Broker, For-Hire Manure Applicator, and Livestock Producer Training and Certification Program Inventory 2024. Dataset repository with Minds@UW., Erb, Kevin, Inaoka, Marai, Meinen, Robert, 2024
Manure handling certification programs in manuresheds across the United States.
Cleaner Waste Systems, Flynn, K., Erb, Kevin, Meinen, Robert, Yost, Jenifer, Inaoka, Marai, Spiegal, Sheri, 2024
Unlocking the Benefits of Advanced Manure Treatment Technologies to Meet the Chesapeake Bay TMDL Challenge, Meinen, Robert, 2024
What to Consider for Fall Manure Applications, Meinen, Robert, 2023
Development of Soil Testing Protocol in Soils Receiving Shallow Disc Manure Injection
Dissertation in Soil Science. Penn State University Libraries, Electronic Theses and Dissertations for Graduate School., Meinen, Robert, 2023
Recalibrating the Pennsylvania pre-sidedress soil nitrate test recommendations for modern corn production
Agronomy Journal, White, Charles, Sigdel, Sailesh, Karsten, H, Meinen, R, Spargo, J, 2023
Avian Influenza Reminders and Heightened Alert., Meinen, Robert, 2023
Behind in Manure Application? Please Move Forward Smartly, Meinen, Robert, 2022
Reminder – Manure Gas
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Food for Thought., Meinen, Robert, 2022
Confined Winter Beef Cows Fact Sheet, Felix, Tara, Springer, Hayley, Felix, T, Meinen, R, Meinen, R, Springer, H, Briggs, Nathan, 2022
Manureshed management to overcome longstanding nutrient imbalances in US agriculture, Flynn, K., Spiegal, Sheri, Kleinman, Peter, Meinen, Robert, Smith, Douglas, 2022
Agenda Highlights for the 2022 North American Manure Expo, Meinen, Robert, 2022
Manure Expo returning to Pennsylvania. American Agriculturist, Meinen, Robert, 2022
The Heavy Truth about Hydrogen Sulfide, Meinen, Robert, 2022
Opportunities to implement manureshed management in the Iowa, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania swine industry
Journal of Environmental Quality, Meinen, Robert, Spiegal, Sheri, Kleinman, Peter, Flynn, K., Goslee, Sarah, Mikesell, R, Church, Clinton, Bryant, Raymond, Boggess, Mark, 2022
Monolith soil core sampling to develop nitrate testing protocol for manure injection
Soil Science Society of America Journal, Meinen, Robert, Beegle, D, Vishwanath, Siddharth, Kleinman, Peter, Saporito, Louis, Spargo, John, Karsten, Heather, Dillon, Justin, 2022
Integrated planning for optimal manure disbursement: Manureshed research can help with placement of future livestock operations, Meinen, Robert, Payne, Ronda, 2021
‘Manuresheds’ Can Inform Poultry and Swine Expansion in Pennsylvania, Meinen, Robert, Gruber, Philip, 2021
Poultry Manureshed Management: Opportunities and Challenges for a Vertically Integrated Industry
Journal of Environmental Quality, Bryant, Raymond, Dinku, Endale, Spiegal, Sheri, Flynn, K., Meinen, Robert, Cavigelli, Michel, Kleinman, Peter, 2021
Recent deaths in Ohio a tragic reminder of manure storage dangers, Meinen, Robert, 2021
Stepping up your fall application, Meinen, Robert, 2021
Demystifying spring manure application practices, Meinen, Robert, 2021
Training Spreads Out the Benefits
Journal of Nutrient Management, Meinen, Robert, 2021
Don’t Lose Your Manure Nutrients Over Winter, Meinen, Robert, 2020
On-Farm Milk Disposal Guidance Released for Pennsylvania, Meinen, Robert, 2020
Hauler Certification Program – Critical to improve water quality, Meinen, Robert, 2020
Reaping the benefits: Nutrient and manure management planning policies should accommodate precision agriculture technologies, Meinen, Robert, 2020
On-Farm Mortality Composting: Management Principles and Information Resources, Meinen, Robert, Williams, Craig, Martin, Gregory, 2020
Roadside Guide to Clean Water: Manure Storage and Application, Meinen, Robert, Ressler, Leon, 2020
On-Farm Milk Disposal Guidance Released for Pennsylvania, Meinen, Robert, 2020
Description and Educational Impact of Pennsylvania’s Manure Hauler and Broker Certification Program
Journal of Extension, Meinen, Robert, Danushi, Wijeyakulasuriya, Aucoin, MIcheal, Berger, Johan, 2020
On-Farm Disposal of Bulk Milk Waste, Meinen, Robert, 2020
Manureshed delineation via analysis of county-level data from IPNI-NuGIS and USDA-NASS (2012).
Ag Data Commons, Spiegal, Sheri, Kleinman, Peter, Endale, Dinku, Bryant, Raymond, Dell, Curtis, Goslee, Sarah, Meinen, Robert, Flynn, K., Baker, K., Browning, D., McCarty, G., Bittman, Shabtai, Carter, J., Cavigelli, Michel, Duncan, Emily, Gowda, P., Li, X., Ponce, G., Raj, Cibin, Silveira, Maria, Smith, Douglas, Arthur, Daniel, Yang, Q., Nezat, C., Vandenberg, B., 2020
Manuresheds: Advancing nutrient recycling in US agriculture
Agricultural Systems, Spiegal, Sheri, Kleinman, Peter, Endale, Dinku M., Bryant, Raymond, Dell, Curtis, Goslee, Sarah, Meinen, Robert, Flynn, K. Colton, Baker, John M., Baker, K., Browning, Dawn M., McCarty, G., Bittman, Shabtai, Carter, Jennifer, Cavigelli, Michel, Duncan, Emily, Gowda, Prasanna, Li, Xia, Ponce-Campos, Guillermo E., Raj, Cibin, Cibin, Raj, Silveira, Maria L., Smith, Douglas, Arthur, Daniel, Yang, Qichun, 2020
The Do’s and Don’ts of Importing Manure, Meinen, Robert, White, Charles, 2019
Considerations for Winter Manure Application, Meinen, Robert, 2019
Certification of Professional Manure Handlers Can Influence Water Quality, Meinen, Robert, 2019
Avoid winter manure application, but if you must…, Meinen, Robert, 2019
Move Forward Smartly with Manure Application, Meinen, Robert, 2019
Manure Management When Storages Fill Up Sooner than Expected, Meinen, Robert, White, Charles, 2018
What Should I Do? Five-step response plan, Meinen, Robert, Sullivan, Chery, Erb, Kevin, 2018
Water-extractable phosphorus in animal manure and manure compost: Quantities, characteristics, and temporal changes
Journal of Environmental Quality, Liu, Jian, Meinen, Robert, Liu, J, Spargo, John T., Kleinman, Peter J.A., Spargo, JT, Kelinman, PJA, Meinen, Robert, Moore Jr, PA, Moore, Philip A., Beegle, Douglas B., 2018
Gypsum bedding impact on hydrogen sulfide release from dairy manure storages
Transactions of the ASABE, Meinen, Robert, Hile, M. L., Hile, ML, Fabian-Wheeler, E., Murphy, D. J., Fabian-Wheeler, E, Murphy, DJ, Meinen, R. J., Hill, D. A., Elliott, H. A., Elliot, HA, Bryant, R. B., 2018
Discrepancies and Uncertainties in Bottom-up Gridded Inventories of Livestock Methane Emissions for the Contiguous United States
Environmental Science & Technology, Meinen, Robert, Hristov, Alexander N., Hristov, A, Harper, M, Meinen, R, Harper, M, Day, R, Lopes, J, Ott, Troy, Venkatesh, A, Randles, C, 2017
Looking back. Looking forward. Managing for Nutrient and Soil Retention in Pastured Lands, Meinen, Robert, 2017
Managing for Nutrient and Soil Retention in Pastured Lands, Meinen, Robert, 2017
Operator exposure to hydrogen sulfide from dairy manure storages containing gypsum bedding
Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health, Meinen, Robert, Fabian-Wheeler, E. E., Fabian-Wheeler, EE, Hile, M. L., Hile, ML, Murphy, D. J., Murphy, DJ, Hill, D. E., Hill, DE, Meinen, R., Brandt, C, Brandt, R. C., Elliott, H. A., Hofstetter, D., 2017
Recommendations to Estimate Swine Nutrient Generation in the Phase 6 Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model
Chesapeake Bay Agriculture Work Group, Meinen, Robert, Estienne, M, Sexton, T, Long, R, Kristoff, J, 2016
BMP Panel Report: Definitions and Recommended Nutrient Reduction Efficiencies of Manure Injection and Incorporation Practices for use in Phase 6.0 of the Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model
Agriculture Work Group, Chesapeake Bay Program, Meinen, Robert, Dell, C, Maguire, R, Allen, A, Dostie, D, Brosch, C, 2016
Manure Treatment Technologies: Recommendations from the Manure Treatment Technologies Expert Panel to the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Water Quality Goal Implementation Team to Define Manure Treatment Technologies as a Best Management Practice
Chesapeake Bay Agriculture Work Group, Meinen, Robert, Hamilton, D, Cantrell, K, Chastain, J, Ludwig, A, Ogejo, J, Porter, J, 2016
Reoccurring Themes of Manure Gas Deaths, Meinen, Robert, 2016
Recurring Themes of Manure Gas Deaths, Meinen, Robert, 2016