Irrigated Tall Fescue-Legume Communities in the Southern Rocky Mountains: Years Five to Eight

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1497-1503

  Lauriault, Leonard M ^a   Guldan, Steven J ^a   Martin, Charles A ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; FERTILIZERS; HARVESTING; IRRIGATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

AGRONOMY;

ASTRAGALUS (ANGIOSPERM); ASTRAGALUS CICER; CICER; CICER ARIETINUM; FESTUCA; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; LOTUS; LOTUS CORNICULATUS; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO SATIVA; ORNITHOPUS PERPUSILLUS; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM AMBIGUUM;

EID: 0344272407     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2003.1497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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