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Why consider alternative production systems?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

Robert I. Papendick
Robert I. Papendick
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Soil scientist, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pullman, WA 99164-6421.
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American Journal of Alternative Agriculture , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Spring 1987 , pp. 83 - 86
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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