Productive life including all lactations and longer lactations with diminishing credits

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3213-3220

  VanRaden, P M ^a   Dematawewa, C M B ^b   Pearson, R E ^b   Tooker, M E ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactation length; Longevity; Productive life

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746881040     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(06)72596-6     Document Type: Article

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