Production response to corn silage produced from normal, brown midrib, or waxy corn hybrids

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4550-4555

  Barlow, J S ^a,b   Bernard, J K ^a   Mullis, N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown midrib; Corn silage; Waxy

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84864075383     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2012-5345     Document Type: Article

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