An analysis of on-farm costs of timing N applications to reduce N losses

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 445-467

  Huang, Wen Yuan ^a   Hewitt, Tracy Irwin ^b   Shank, David ^c  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Cncl Food Agric and Rsrc Econ   (United States)

^c Economic Research Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Application timing; Compliance costs; Environmental impacts; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032261270     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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