Strip tillage for sweet corn production: Yield and economic return

HortScience

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1040-1044

  Luna, John M ^a   Staben, Mary L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Participatory on farm research; Vegetable production

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; ECONOMICS; HARVESTING; HERBICIDES; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTION; ROTATING MACHINERY;

REPLICATIONS;

DEXTROSE;

GASTROPODA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036952651     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.37.7.1040     Document Type: Article

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