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Alternative Agriculture Scientists’ Review

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62300/3zngd247
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John R. Abernathy
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas A&M University
Charles A. Black
Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University
Donald N. Duvick
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
Cornelia B. Flora
Department of Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ralph W. Fogleman
Upper Black Eddy
Leonard Gianessi
Resources for the Future, Inc.
Joseph F. Guenthner
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho
Virgil W. Hays
Department of Animal Sciences, University of Kentucky
Barry J. Jacobsen
Department of Plant Pathology, Auburn University
Ellery L. Knake
Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
J. E. Legates
Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University
Abstract
Reviews by 44 leading scientists support and criticize the 1989 National Research Council report, Alternative Agriculture. The authors represent the disciplines of agricultural engineering, food science, toxicology, animal sciences, crop and soil sciences, economics sociology, weed science, entomology, and plant pathology.
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