A decade of advances in cover crops

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Delgado, Jorge A ^a   Dillon, Merlin A ^b   Sparks, Richard T ^c   Essah, Samuel Y C ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COVER CROP; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEACHING; POTATO; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETABLE; WATER QUALITY;

NORTH AMERICA; SAN LUIS VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 34848818804     PISSN: 00224561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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