Readdressing the fertilizer problem

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 368-384

  Paulson, Nicholas D ^a   Babcock, Bruce A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Department of Economics ^*  (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; Nitrogen fertilizer; Risk increasing; Yield risk

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79951866673     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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