Challenging Balance between Productivity and Environmental Quality: Tillage Impacts

Soil Management: Building a Stable Base for Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 13-37

  Reicosky, D C ^a   Sauer, T J ^b   Hatfield, J L ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

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