Economic and environmental evaluation of site-specific tillage in a maize crop in NE Italy

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-92

  Basso, Bruno ^a,b,c   Sartori, Luigi ^d   Bertocco, Matteo ^d   Cammarano, Davide ^c   Martin, Edward C ^e   Grace, Peter R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic analysis; Gross margin; Maize; Precision agriculture; Site specific tillage; Tillage modelling

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION TILLAGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP RESIDUE; CROP YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEACHING; MAIZE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NITRATE; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RESEARCH WORK; SOIL CARBON; VALUATION; YIELD RESPONSE; ZERO TILLAGE;

ITALY; ROVIGO; VENETO;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79957713224     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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