Predicting corn and soybean productivity for Illinois soils

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 151-170

  Garcia Paredes, J D ^a   Olson, K R ^a   Lang, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop yield prediction; Illinois soils; Soil property models; Soil types; Yield trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033944120     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-521X(00)00020-2     Document Type: Article

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