Lameness, metabolic and digestive disorders, and technical efficiency in Danish dairy herds: A stochastic frontier production function approach

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 157-172

  Lawson, Lartey G ^a   Agger, Jens F ^a   Lund, Mogens ^a   Coelli, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal health economics; Dairy herd efficiency; Digestive disorders; Epidemiology; Ketosis; Lameness; Milk fever; Stochastic frontier production function

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ILEX COOKII;

EID: 7644242554     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livprodsci.2004.07.016     Document Type: Article

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