Arrowleaf clover improves lamb growth rates in late spring and early summer compared with subterranean clover pastures in south-west Victoria

Animal Production Science

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 807-816

  Thompson, A N ^a,b   Kennedy, A J ^a,b   Holmes, J ^a   Kearney, G ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; DICOTYLEDON; DIGESTIBILITY; GRASS; GRAZING; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; LANDSCAPE; LEGUME; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PASTURE; PROTEIN; SHEEP;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; OVIS ARIES; PLEUROCORONIS PLURISETA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEUM; TRIFOLIUM VESICULOSUM;

EID: 77956374710     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AN09100     Document Type: Article

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