The environmental benefits and costs of conservation tillage

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 216, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 13-32

  Uri, N D ^a   Atwood, J D ^a   Sanabria, J ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Environmental consequences; Production practice

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMAPCT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FARMING PRACTICE; TILLAGE PRACTICE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LEACHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 0032516385     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00134-X     Document Type: Article

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