Cropping system influences on several soil quality attributes in the northern Great Plains

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 254-258

  Wienhold, Brian J ^a   Halvorson, Ardell D ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Crop rotation; Microbe numbers; Organic carbon; Organic nitrogen; Summer fallow

Indexed keywords

CROPPING PRACTICE; SOIL QUALITY; SUSTAINABILITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032232671     PISSN: 00224561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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