Response of perennial cool-season grasses to clipping in the southern plains

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 125-130

  Gillen, Robert L ^a   Berg, William A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; EROSION; HARVESTING; PRODUCTION; PROTEINS; RESEARCH; SAND; SOILS;

CRUDE PROTEIN; DRYLAND CONDITIONS; SANDY LOAM; WHEATGRASS;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURE; EROSION; FARM CROPS; HARVESTING; PRODUCTION; PROTEINS; SAND; SOIL;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; ELYTRIGIA; ELYTRIGIA ELONGATA; ELYTRIGIA INTERMEDIA; PASCOPYRUM SMITHII; POACEAE; PSATHYROSTACHYS; PSATHYROSTACHYS JUNCEA; SECALE CEREALE; THINOPYRUM ELONGATUM; THINOPYRUM INTERMEDIUM; TRITICEAE; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 13544259730     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005.0125     Document Type: Article

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