Determining the optimum replacement policy for Holstein dairy herds in Iran

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2262-2270

  Kalantari, A S ^a   Mehrabani Yeganeh, H ^a   Moradi, M ^a   Sanders, A H ^b   De Vries, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culling; Dynamic programming; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COST; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; IRAN; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; BOVINAE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DAIRYING; FEMALE; IRAN; LACTATION; MILK; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PARITY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 77952087131     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2765     Document Type: Article

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