Influences of somatic cell count on milk composition and dairy farm profitability

International Journal of Dairy Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 463-469

  El Tahawy, Abdelgawad Salah ^a   El Far, Ali Hafez ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Milk composition; Milk return; Somatic cell count

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954394166     PISSN: 1364727X     EISSN: 14710307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0307.2010.00597.x     Document Type: Article

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