Enhancing management of fall-applied poultry litter with cover crop and subsurface band placement in no-till cotton

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 449-458

  Tewolde, Haile ^a   Shankle, Mark W ^b   Way, Thomas R ^c   Adeli, Ardeshir ^a   Brooks, John P ^a   He, Zhongqi ^d  

^a CROP SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84923583465     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj14.0266     Document Type: Article

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