Forage-livestock models for the Australian livestock industry

Agricultural System Models in Field Research and Technology Transfer

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 9-32

  Donnelly, John R ^a   Simpson, Richard J ^a   Salmon, Libby ^a   Moore, Andrew D ^a   Freer, Michael ^a   Dove, Hugh ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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