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The necessity and possibility of perennial grain production systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2007

Jerry D. Glover
Affiliation:
Natural Systems Agriculture Project at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, USA.

Abstract

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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