Soil Tillage and Crop Establishment

Sugar Beet

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 114-133

  Håkansson, Inge ^a   Henriksson, Lennart ^a   Blomquist, Jens E ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Agraria Ord and Jord   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crop establishment; Cultivation; Objectives; Soil conditions; Soil tillage

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049123789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751114.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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