Row cleaners enhance reduced tillage planting of corn in Iran

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 152-161

  Raoufat, M H ^a   Matbooei, A ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Corn production; Crop residue management; Reduced tillage; Row cleaners; Stand establishment

Indexed keywords

CROPS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); PLANTS (BOTANY);

CORN PRODUCTION; CROP RESIDUE MANAGEMENT; REDUCED TILLAGE; ROW CLEANERS; STAND ESTABLISHMENT;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP RESIDUE; CROP YIELD; MACHINERY; MAIZE; PLOWING; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SPACING; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; FARM CROPS; GRAIN; PLANTS;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33846165761     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2006.03.026     Document Type: Article

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