Environmental and economic evaluation of N fertilizer rates in a maize crop in Italy: A spatial and temporal analysis using crop models
Biosystems Engineering, July 31, 2012
Publication year: 2012Source:Biosystems EngineeringBruno Basso, Luigi Sartori, Davide Cammarano, Costanza Fiorentino, Peter R. Grace, Spyros Fountas, Claus A. Sorensen Crop simulation models have the potential to assess the risk associated with the selection of a specific N fertilizer rate, by integ...
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