Impacts of irrigated dairying on the environment

Environmental Impacts of Pasture-Based Farming

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 232-248

  Nash, David ^a,b   Barlow, Kirsten ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^c Formerly Victorian Department of Primary Industries   (Australia)

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