Reducing vibration while maintaining efficacy of rollers to terminate cover crops

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 581-584

  Raper, Randy L ^a   Simionescu, Petru Aurelian ^b   Kornecki, Ted S ^a   Price, Andrew J ^a   Reeves, Donald W ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Cover crop; Implement; Residue

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; CROPS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAINTENANCE; ROLLERS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); SPEED; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CONSERVATION TILLAGE; COVER CROPS; EFFICACY; ROLLER BLADE DESIGNS;

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS;

EID: 10244229142     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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