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Iowa farmers' responses to transformative scenarios for Corn Belt agriculture

Joan I. Nassauer, Jennifer A. Dowdell, Zhifang Wang, Danielle McKahn, Brian Chilcott, Catherine L. Kling and Silvia Secchi
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation January 2011, 66 (1) 18A-24A; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.66.1.18A
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