Relationship between dairy cow genetic merit and profit on commercial spring calving dairy farms

Animal

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1031-1039

  Ramsbottom, G ^a   Cromie, A R ^b   Horan, B ^c   Berry, D P ^c  

^a TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^b IRISH CATTLE BREEDING FEDERATION   (Ireland)

^c ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

dairy; economic; fertility; genetic; stocking rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; INTERNET; IRELAND; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INTERNET; IRELAND; MILK; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 84858111569     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731111002503     Document Type: Article

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