Utilization by cattle of a pasture including aged hilly sections

Grassland Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 160-167

  Watanabe, Nariyasu ^a   Umemura, Kazuhiro ^a   Sakanoue, Seiichi ^a   Kozakai, Takaharu ^a   Kawamura, Kensuke ^b  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged hilly section; Bite counter; GPS; Grazing; Pasture use

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; GPS; GRAZING; PASTURE;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 77956242786     PISSN: 17446961     EISSN: 1744697X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-697X.2010.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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