Management of Wisconsin dairy herds enrolled in milk quality teams

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2660-2671

  Rodrigues, A C O ^a   Caraviello, D Z ^a   Ruegg, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Management; Mastitis; Milk quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944439386     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(05)72943-X     Document Type: Article

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