Producers have a positive attitude toward improving lamb survival rates but may be influenced by enterprise factors and perceptions of control

Livestock Science

Volumn 140, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 103-110

  Elliott, Joanne ^a,b   Sneddon, Joanne ^b   Lee, Julie A ^b   Blache, Dominique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Australia; Farmer attitudes; Lamb survival; Theory of Planned Behaviour

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79960923641     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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