Organic and other management strategies with two- and four-year crop rotations in Minnesota

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 233-244

  Porter, Paul M ^a   Huggins, Dave R ^b   Perillo, Catherine A ^c   Quiring, Steven R ^d   Crookston, R Kent ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Southwest Research and Outreach Center   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZERS; PESTICIDES;

EXPANDED CROP ROTATION;

CULTIVATION;

BIOCIDES; CROP ROTATION; CULTIVATION; FERTILIZERS;

AVENA SATIVA; GLYCINE MAX; MEDICAGO SATIVA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037347828     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2003.0233     Document Type: Article

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