Legume cover crops with winter cereals in southern Manitoba: Fertilizer replacement values for oat

Canadian Journal of Plant Science

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 645-648

  Thiessen Martens, J R ^a   Entz, M H ^a   Hoeppner, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cover crops; Double cropping; Relay cropping

Indexed keywords

COVER CROP; CROPPING PRACTICE; LEGUME;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA;

AVENA SATIVA; LATHYRUS SATIVUS; LENS CULINARIS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE;

EID: 28344433404     PISSN: 00084220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/P04-114     Document Type: Article

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