Cultural strategies for managing weeds and soil moisture in cover crop based no-till soybean production

Weed Science

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 501-511

  Wells, M Scott ^a   Reberg Horton, S Chris ^b   Mirsky, Steven B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cereal rye cover crop; conservation tillage; no till; organic soybean; roll kill; rollercrimper; rotational no till; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905721599     PISSN: 00431745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/WS-D-13-00142.1     Document Type: Article

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