First-year corn after alfalfa showed no response to fertilizer nitrogen under no-tillage

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 208-214

  Yost, Matt A ^a   Coulter, Jeffrey A ^a   Russelle, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO SATIVA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84872968383     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2012.0334     Document Type: Article

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