Grass-based farming systems: Soil conservation and environmental quality

Grassland: Quietness and Strength for a New American Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 121-136

  Singer, Jeremy ^a   Franzluebbers, Alan ^a   Karlen, Douglas ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American agricultural systems; Conservation reserve program; Conservation security program; EnvironmentalQualityIncentivesProgram; Farm profitability; Grass based agricultural system; Land tenure; NRCS; Soil conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856733053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/2009.grassland.c7     Document Type: Chapter

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