The profitability of automatic milking on Dutch dairy farms

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 239-248

  Bijl, R ^a   Kooistra, S R ^b   Hogeveen, H ^a,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Alfa Accountants en Adviseurs   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic milking; Economics; Profitability

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 35648951430     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(07)72625-5     Document Type: Article

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