The quality of commercial wheat silages in Israel

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 638-644

  Weinberg, Z G ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Solomon, R ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Commercial wheat silage; Digestibility; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

BOS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 59349118922     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2008-1120     Document Type: Article

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