Classification of Crop Yield Variability in Irrigated Production Fields

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1105-1120

  Dobermann, A ^a   Ping, J L ^a   Adamchuk, V I ^a   Simbahan, G C ^a   Ferguson, R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FUZZY SETS; IRRIGATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CROP YIELD VARIABILITY;

CROPS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0141592295     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2003.1105     Document Type: Article

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