Water quality: Atrazine loss in runoff from no-tillage and chisel-tillage systems on a Houston Black clay soil

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 572-577

  Pantone, D J ^a   Potter, K N ^b   Torbert, H A ^b   Morrison Jr , J E ^b  

^a BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOCIDAE; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

ATRAZINE; CROP RESIDUES; HOUSTON BLACK CLAY SOIL; SOIL MANAGEMENT; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; CLAY; EROSION; HERBICIDES; LOSSES; RAIN; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL TESTING;

AGRICULTURE;

ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE; RAIN; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CLAY; CORN; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; SEDIMENT; SOLUBILITY; SORGHUM; WHEAT;

EID: 0030152592     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq1996.00472425002500030024x     Document Type: Article

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