Performance of dairy cows fed annual ryegrass silage and corn silage with steam-flaked or ground corn

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2417-2422

  Cooke, K M ^a   Bernard, J K ^a   West, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn silage; Ground corn; Ryegrass silage; Steam flaked corn

Indexed keywords

BOS; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 44949243926     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2007-0715     Document Type: Article

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