Atrazine incorporation and soil erosion: Balancing competing water quality concerns for claypan soils

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1305-1316

  Lerch, R N ^a   Harbourt, C M ^b   Broz, R R ^c   Thevary, T J ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Claypan soils; Erosion; Minimum till; No till; Rotary harrow; Runoff; Water quality.

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE CONCENTRATIONS; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CLAYPAN SOIL; HERBICIDE TRANSPORT; MINIMUM TILL; NO-TILL; ROTARY HARROW; TOTAL SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; EROSION; RUNOFF; SILT; WATER QUALITY; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

ATRAZINE; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CLAY SOIL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL EROSION; TILLAGE; WATER QUALITY;

CORN BELT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891469710     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13031/trans.56.10272     Document Type: Article

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