Challenging approaches to nitrogen fertilizer recommendations in continuous cropping systems in the Great Plains

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 391-398

  Schlegel, Alan J ^a   Grant, Cynthia A ^b   Havlin, John L ^c  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SENSORS; SOILS;

CROPPING SYSTEMS; FALLOW SYSTEMS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER (SOM); TILLAGE;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

FERTILIZERS; IMMOBILIZATION; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; SENSORS; SOIL; VAPORIZATION; YIELD;

EID: 15944426427     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005.0391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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