On-farm assessment of the amount and timing of nitrogen fertilizer on ammonia volatilization

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 134-144

  Ma, B L ^a   Wu, T Y ^a   Tremblay, N ^a   Deen, W ^b   McLaughlin, N B ^a   Morrison, M J ^a   Stewart, G ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA VOLATILIZATION; CROP YIELD; FIELD EXPERIMENT; N FERTILIZATION; N FERTILIZERS; PREPLANT FERTILIZATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STATIC CHAMBER METHOD; THRESHOLD LEVELS; VOLATILIZATION LOSS;

AGRICULTURE; AMMONIA;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

EID: 74549160303     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2009.0021     Document Type: Article

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