Conditioning practices and their effects on infestation and quality of corn stored on Kansas farms

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 623-630

  Reed, C ^a   Arthur, F H ^b   Trigo Stockli, D ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain conditioning; Grain deterioration; Grain storage

Indexed keywords

BINS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD STORAGE; FUNGUS ATTACK;

GRAIN QUALITY; INSECT INFESTATION;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

EID: 0032207610     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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