Predicting maize and soybean production in a sheltered field in the Cornbelt region of North Central USA

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-116

  Mize, C W ^a   Egeh, M H ^b   Batchelor, W D ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Crop model; Micrometeorology; Shelterbelt; Wind break

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CROP PRODUCTION; MODELING; SHELTERBELT;

CORN BELT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 18144394362     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-004-0534-x     Document Type: Article

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