Sward prehensibility in cattle and sheep;Préhensibilité de l'herbe pâturée chez les bovins et les ovins

Productions Animales

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 377-390

  Prache, S ^a   Peyraud, J L ^b  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

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