Inclusion of maize or oats-vetch silage for grazing dairy cows in small-scale campesino systems in the highlands of central mexico

Journal of Applied Animal Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-23

  Guadarrama Estrada, J ^a   Espinoza Ortega, A ^a   Gonzalez Esquivel C E ^a   Arriaga Jordan C M ^b  

^a Centro de Investigatión en Ciencias Agropecuarias   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Grazing; Highlands; Maize silage; Mexico; Oats vetch silage; Small scale systems

Indexed keywords

AVENA; AVENA SATIVA; BOS; LOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM REPENS; VICIA; VICIA SATIVA; VICIA SATIVA SUBSP. NIGRA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 45449110286     PISSN: 09712119     EISSN: 09741844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09712119.2007.9706839     Document Type: Article

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