Economics of site-specific management in agronomic crops

The State of Site-Specific Management for Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 369-396

  Lowenberg DeBoer, Jess ^a   Swinton, Scott M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural production technology; Agronomic crops; Economic characteristics; Farm level economic research; Farm level profit ability analysis; Field level economic research; Site specific management; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 85104351701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/1997.stateofsitespecific.c16     Document Type: Chapter

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