eprintid: 337
rev_number: 12
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datestamp: 2010-11-20 21:52:00
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creators_name: Massee, T.W.
creators_name: Cary, J.W.
title: Potential for Reducing Evaporation During Summer Fallow
ispublished: pub
subjects: unclass
divisions: d_unclass
abstract: INITIAL attempts by farmers to settle
the dryland areas of the United
States failed when they tried farming
methods used in more humid areas.
A stable agriculture developed only
after summer fallowing was introduced.
Even with modern tillage methods,
no more than 30 percent of all precipitation
is stored in most dryland soils
during an entire fallow period—from
fall, at harvest, through the summer
fallow year, to the spring of the crop
year. Evaporation accounts for most
of the precipitation lost. Methods to
suppress evaporation are thus needed.
date: 1978
date_type: published
id_number: 0403
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
volume: 33
number: 3
pagerange: 126-129
refereed: unknown
citation:   Massee, T.W. and Cary, J.W.  (1978) Potential for Reducing Evaporation During Summer Fallow.   Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.      33(3):126-129.               
document_url: https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/337/1/403.pdf