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Table III
Numerical optimization settings and results for the 2007 foliar nitrogen content.
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| Name | Goal | Lower limit | Upper limit | ||
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| Irrigation | In range | 0.625 cm/wk | 3.75 cm/wk | ||
| Fertilization | In range | 28 kg/ha | 112 Kg/ha | ||
| N content | Target = 180 ppm | ||||
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| Optimum solutions | |||||
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| Rank | Irrigation | Fertilization | N content | Desirability | |
| (cm/wk) | (kg/ha) | (ppm) | |||
| (mg kg−1) | |||||
| 2007 | 1 | 1.25 | 28 | 179.15 | 0.99 |
| 2 | 2.50 | 112 | 177.12 | 0.97 | |
| 3 | 0.62 | 56 | 176.72 | 0.96 | |
| 4 | 1.25 | 56 | 185.61 | 0.96 | |
| 5 | 1.25 | 112 | 188.02 | 0.94 | |
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| 2008 | 1 | 1.25 | 112 | 178.93 | 0.99 |
| 2 | 1.25 | 56 | 170.72 | 0.92 | |
| 3 | 0.62 | 112 | 165.34 | 0.87 | |
| 4 | 3.75 | 112 | 155.44 | 0.79 | |
| 5 | 2.50 | 56 | 148.67 | 0.73 | |