Economic impacts associated with bovine somatotropin (BST) use based on survey of US dairy herds

AgBioForum

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 173-180

  Ott, Stephen L ^a   Rendleman, C Matthew ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ANIMAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b S Illinois University at Carbondale   (United States)

Author keywords

Milk production; Profitability; rBST; Recombinant bovine somatotropin

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE;

EID: 0344598691     PISSN: 1522936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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