Economics of foliar fungicides for hard red winter wheat in the USA southern Great Plains

Crop Protection

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-6

  Thompson, Nathanael M ^a   Epplin, Francis M ^a   Edwards, Jeffrey T ^a   Hunger, Robert M ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Foliar disease; Fungicide; Stochastic dominance; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893698578     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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