Pre-harvest forecasting of county wheat yield and wheat quality using weather information

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 168, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-35

  Lee, Byoung Hoon ^a,b   Kenkel, Phil ^b   Brorsen, B Wade ^b  

^a Korea Rural Economic Institute   (South Korea)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Prediction; Protein; Test weight; Wheat; Yield

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CROP YIELD; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FOOD QUALITY; GROWING SEASON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; PROTEIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84866994443     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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