Performance of late maturing beef x dairy cattle finished on grass silage plus concentrate or all-concentrate diets

Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 409-417

  Grundy, H F ^a   Hardy, R ^a   Chapple, D G ^a   Davies, M H ^a  

^a ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Belgian Blue; Piemontese; Simmental; Supplementation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034552634     PISSN: 07916833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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