Soil bulk density estimation for tillage systems and soil textures

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1601-1610

  Chen, Y ^a,b   Tessier, S ^a,c,d   Rouffignat, J ^e  

^a ASAE ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c Agricultural Engineering Dept

^d GOVERNMENT OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Organic matter; Soil strata; Soil texture; Tillage

Indexed keywords

MOLDBOARD PLOW; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS; CULTIVATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

SOILS;

BULK DENSITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURE;

EID: 0032215496     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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