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Download full textDoersch, R. E.; And Others – 1974
This document gives the characteristics and application rates for herbicides used to control annual weeds in corn, annual and perennial broadleaf weeds in corn, quackgrass and yellow nutsedge in corn, and annual weeds in soybeans. It also gives insecticide use information for corn and soybeans. A brief discussion of disease control in corn and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Chemical Occupations, Agricultural Education, Disease Control, Field Crops
Stokes, C. Shannon; Brace, Kathy D. – 1986
A study of 1,497 nonmetropolitan counties was conducted to test the possible contribution of agricultural chemical use to cancer mortality rates in rural counties. The dependent variables were 20-year age-adjusted mortality rates for 1950 to 1969 for five categories of cancer: genital, urinary, lymphatic, respiratory, and digestive. Because sex…
Descriptors: Agricultural Supplies, Cancer, Death, Demography
