Performance of growing cattle grazing moderate quality legume-grass temperate pastures when offered varying forage allowance with or without grain supplementation

Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 46, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 793-797

  Beretta, V ^a   Simeone, A ^a   Elizalde, J C ^b   Baldi, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Beef; Forage allowance; Grain; Supplementation

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; FEEDING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FORAGE; GRAZING; LIVESTOCK FARMING;

SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

BOS TAURUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33745371583     PISSN: 08161089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EA05331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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