Nutritional quality and yield of seedling alfalfa established with a barley companion crop and weeds

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 103, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 163-169

  Zaman, M S ^a,b   Moyer, J R ^a   Boswall, A L ^a   Mir, Z ^a  

^a LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Companion crop; Nutritive value; Weed; Yield

Indexed keywords

ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS; AMARANTHUS; AMARANTHUS RETROFLEXUS; AVENA; AVENA FATUA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO SATIVA; SETARIA VIRIDIS;

EID: 0037473972     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8401(02)00290-0     Document Type: Article

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