Relationships between soil fertility, herbage quality and manure composition on grassland-based dairy farms

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 56, Issue , 2014, Pages 9-18

  Reijneveld, J A ^a   Abbink, G W ^a   Termorshuizen, A J ^b   Oenema, O ^c  

^a BLGG AgroXpertus   (Netherlands)

^b BLGG Research   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dairy farms; Fertilization; Grassland; Herbage quality; Manure composition; Nutrients; Soil fertility; Soil tests

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE; DAIRY FARMING; GRASSLAND; HERB; MANURE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL TEST;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84899128617     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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