Yield and nutritive value of summer legumes as influenced by dairy manure compost and competition with crabgrass

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 812-817

  Nguluve, Damião W ^a   Muir, James P ^b   Wittie, Roger ^c   Rosiere, Randall ^c   Butler, Twain J ^b  

^a Inst de Prod Animal   (Mozambique)

^b Box 00   (United States)

^c TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERGENTS; FIBERS; PROTEINS; SOILS;

CRABGRASS; SUMMER LEGUMES;

AGRICULTURE;

CHAMAECRISTA; CHAMAECRISTA FASCICULATA; DESMANTHUS; DESMANTHUS ILLINOENSIS; DESMANTHUS ILLINOIENSIS; DESMANTHUS VIRGATUS; DIGITARIA CILIARIS; MACROPTILIUM; MACROPTILIUM LATHYROIDES; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PISUM SATIVUM; POACEAE;

EID: 2642565422     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2004.0812     Document Type: Article

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