Invited review: Ethanol co-products for dairy cows: There goes our starch ... now what?

Canadian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 407-425

  Paz, H A ^a   Castillo Lopez, E ^b   Ramirez Ramirez, H A ^a   Christensen, D A ^b   Klopfenstein, T J ^a   Kononoff, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dairy cow; Distillers' grains and solubles; Milk production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888255218     PISSN: 00083984     EISSN: 19181825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJAS2013-048     Document Type: Article

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