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Interdependence on a Dairy Farm

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Water Cycle
Carbon Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle

At Shady Ranch Dairy, I was able to see the water cycle, nitrogen cycle and carbon cycle cooperating with each other in many effective ways through the recyling of water and waste.

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Water Cycle: I saw many examples of the water cycle while I was visting Mr.Bones Dairy Farm such as the employees using a pressure hose to clean the waste into the lagoon where it would be mixed with water to be pumped out into the fields.

Carbon Cycle: While at the dairy farm Mr.Bones stated that when the cows respirated they would release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Photosynthesis from the plants would then turn the carbon dioxide into oxygen where the cows could repeat the whole process.

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Nitrogen Cycle: Mr. Bones explained to me that once the cattle passed away they would moved the corpses into the graveyard where they would decompose and release nitrates into the soil where dentrification would let it into the atmosphere.

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