Opportunities and challenges for integrating North-American crop and livestock systems

Grassland Productivity and Ecosystems Services

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 208-218

  Franzluebbers, Alan J ^a   Sulc, R Mark ^b   Russelle, Michael P ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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