Enhancing the profitability of pasture-based dairy production in the humid tropics through improved nutrition

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 147-157

  Van Houtert, Martin F J ^a   Sykes, Andrew R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Grazing; Milk yield; Pasture management; Stocking rate; Supplementation; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; RESEARCH; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0033608220     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(98)00120-2     Document Type: Article

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