Silage corn

Specialty Corns, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 347-392

  Coors, James G ^a   Lauer, Joseph G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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SILAGE CORN;

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