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Moving beyond the soil test

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2014

William Liebhardt*
Affiliation:
Former Director, University of California, Davis, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, Davis, CAUSA.
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*Corresponding author: [email protected]

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