Monitoring Changes in Carcass Quality Across Time-on-Feed Using Real-Time Ultrasound to Optimize Marketing Endpoints

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 202-205

  Nash, S A ^a   Harrison, S N ^a   Packham, J H ^a   Panting, R R ^a   Duckett, S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Beef; Carcass; Marketing; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142861289     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31693-4     Document Type: Article

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