The economic value of somatic cell count payment schemes for UK dairy cattle breeding programmes

Animal Science

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 293-298

  Veerkamp, R F ^a   Stott, A W ^a   Hill, W G ^b   Brotherstone, S ^b  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breeding programmes; Dairy cattle; Economics; Somatic cell count

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0032056106     PISSN: 13577298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1357729800009413     Document Type: Article

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