Drought Avoidance Assessment for Summer Annual Crops Using Long-Term Weather Data

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1566-1576

  Purcell, Larry C ^a   Sinclair, Thomas R ^b   McNew, Ronald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; RAIN; SOILS;

CROP MANAGEMENT;

AGRONOMY;

EID: 0345566368     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2003.1566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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