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  1. Red River Valley Potato Research Center, AERD, ARS, USDA, Grand Forks, N.D.

    G. W. French (Agricultural Engineer)

  2. Department of Soil Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul

    G. R. Blake (professor)

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Paper No. 64-101 presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers at Fort Collins, Colo., June 1964, on a program arranged by the Power and Machinery Division.

This article is reprinted with authors changes from theTransactions of the ASAE (vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 246, 247 and 248, 1965), the Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Saint Joseph, Michigan.

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French, G.W., Blake, G.R. Primary tillage for potatoes. American Potato Journal 43, 375–380 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02862486

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