Reduced tillage alternatives for machine-harvested cucumbers

HortScience

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 991-995

  Lonsbary, Sheryl K ^a   O'Sullivan, John ^a   Swanton, Clarence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conventional tillage; Cucumis sativus; No tillage; Reduced tillage; Zone tillage

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EROSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

ALTERNATIVE TILLAGE PRACTICES; LEAF AREA INDEX;

HARVESTING;

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 3142712427     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.39.5.991     Document Type: Article

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