Winter grain-short season corn double crop forage production for New England

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 256-264

  Jemison, John M ^a   Darby, Heather M ^b   Chris Reberg Horton, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

^b North Carolina State Univ ^*  (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; TRITICOSECALE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84858033915     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2011.0275     Document Type: Article

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