Crop residues

A. P. Whitmore, E. Handayanto, Simulating the mineralization of N from crop residues in relation to residue quality. Driven by Nature—Plant Litter Quality and Decomposition (G. Cadish and K. E. Giller, eds.), CAB International, Wallingford, 1997, p. 337. 

Description of the different types of field crop residue studies... 

There are important instructions in each section in the series relative to specific types of tests. However, four sections of the series provide particularly significant instructions relative to field crop residue trials and a short summary of their content is listed below. 

Conducting crop residue field trials in Europe... 

Field residue data, which are generated to meet requirements in the pesticide registration process, are used to regulate the use of agriculture products within the European Union (EU). This article examines the best practices to conduct crop field trials and to generate crop residue samples in Europe in order to provide part of the data that the agrochemical producers of the active ingredients must provide to the EU Commission. 

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