Data management affects reproductive performance indicators in Swedish dairy herds

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica A: Animal Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 73-80

  Löf, Emma ^a,b   Emanuelson, Ulf ^a   Gustafsson, Hans ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Dairy Association   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agreement; AI recording; Dairy herd; Data quality

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 36749088848     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: 16511972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064700701775529     Document Type: Article

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