Tillage effects on corn emergence, silage yield, and labor and fuel inputs in double cropping with wheat

Crop Science

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2523-2528

  Lithourgidis, Anastasios S ^a   Tsatsarelis, Constantinos A ^a   Dhima, Kico V ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 27644509551     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2005.0141     Document Type: Article

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