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Moving beyond the soil test

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2014

William Liebhardt
William Liebhardt*
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Former Director, University of California, Davis, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, Davis, CAUSA.
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*Corresponding author: wcliebhardt@ucdavis.edu
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Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems , Volume 29 , Issue 3: Special Section: Themed Content: Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems , September 2014 , pp. 189 - 191
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