Cropping pattern choice with proximity to ethanol production and animal feeding operations

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-443

  Khanal, Sami ^a   Anex, Robert P ^a   Gelder, Brian K ^b   Dixon, Philip ^b   Caragea, Petrutza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrated animal feeding operations; Crop rotation; Ethanol plants

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICIES; ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS; BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION; CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS; CORN-ETHANOL; CROP ROTATION; CROPPING PATTERNS; CROPPING SYSTEMS; CUMULATIVE INFLUENCE; ETHANOL PLANTS; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; GROWING DEMAND; MANURE APPLICATIONS; MANURE MANAGEMENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; LOGISTICS; MANURES; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FEEDING;

EID: 84863778770     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1337     Document Type: Article

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