Integrating winter annual forages into a no-till corn silage system

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1286-1296

  Faé, Giovani Stefani ^a   Mark Sulc, R ^a   Barker, David J ^a   Dick, Richard P ^b   Eastridge, Maurice L ^c   Lorenz, Nicola ^b  

^a 202 Kottman Hall   (United States)

^b Ohio State School of Environment and Natural Resources   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FEED; AVENA SATIVA; COLUMBUS; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); CORN SILAGE; COVER CROPS; CROP ROTATION; CROPPING SYSTEMS; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; FORAGE YIELD; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; NO TILLAGE; NO-TILL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; ROOT YIELD; SECALE CEREALE; SILAGE CORN; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SOIL PENETRATION RESISTANCE; SOIL RESPONSE; SPRING SEASON;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; INTEGRATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

CROPS;

ANIMALIA; AVENA SATIVA; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; SECALE CEREALE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70349437256     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2009.0144     Document Type: Article

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