Management and assessment of winter cover crop systems for supplying nitrogen to corn in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States

Research examining cover crop-corn systems focuses on corn planted into chemically desiccated cover crop residue using no-tillage practices. Two field studies including rye (Secale cereale L.), hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth), and rye+hairy vetch cover crops were established to determine the influe...

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Main Author: Vaughan, Jeffrey David
Other Authors: Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43799
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07212009-040446/