A sociological analysis of site-specific management

The State of Site-Specific Management for Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 397-422

  Nowak, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural technology; Agroecological variation; Site specific management; Socioeconomic consequences; Sociological analysis; Soil variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85104307806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/1997.stateofsitespecific.c17     Document Type: Chapter

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