Economics of irrigated continuous corn under conventional-till and no-till in Northern Colorado

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1166-1172

  Archer, David W ^a   Halvorson, Ardell D ^a   Reule, Curtis A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AIR POLLUTION; CLAY MINERALS; CONSERVATION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

CLAY LOAM SOILS; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE (CT); CORN GRAINS; ECONOMIC OPTIMUM; ECONOMIC RETURNS; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; EROSION POTENTIAL (EP); FERTILIZATION RATES; GREEN HOUSE GAS (GHG) EMISSIONS; IRRIGATED CROPLAND; N FERTILIZATION; N FERTILIZERS; NO TILL (NT); TILLAGE SYSTEMS; ZEA MAYS L.;

GAS EMISSIONS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 47749083189     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2007.0291     Document Type: Article

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