Management implications of conservation tillage and poultry litter use for Southern Piedmont USA cropping systems

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 299-313

  Endale, Dinku M ^a   Schomberg, Harry H ^a   Jenkins, Michael B ^a   Franklin, Dory H ^a   Fisher, Dwight S ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventional tillage; Corn; Cotton; No till; Organic matter; Runoff; Soil quality; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BACTERIUM; BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; COTTON; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FOOD PRODUCTION; HORMONE; INFILTRATION; LEACHING; LITTER; MAIZE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MANURE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; POULTRY; RAINFALL; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL WATER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER QUALITY; ZERO TILLAGE; ZINC;

PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; SECALE CEREALE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77958495873     PISSN: 13851314     EISSN: 15730867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10705-009-9318-z     Document Type: Article

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