Long-term evaluation of poultry litter as a source of nitrogen for cotton and corn

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 399-407

  Mitchell, Charles C ^a   Tu, Shuxin ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COTTON; CROPS; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CORN GRAIN YIELD; CROP YIELDS; POULTRY BROILER LITTER (BL); TILLAGE SYSTEMS;

WASTES;

AMMONIUM NITRATE; CORN; COTTON; FERTILIZATION; NITROGEN; POULTRY; RAIN; WASTES; WEATHER;

EID: 15944365554     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005.0399     Document Type: Article

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