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Cover crop impacts on US cropland carbon sequestration

Sami Tellatin and Robert L. Myers
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation September 2018, 73 (5) 117A-121A; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.73.5.117A
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