Recent developments in feeding beef cattle on grass silage-based diets

Silage Production and Utilisation: Proceedings of the XIVth International Silage Conference, a Satellite Workshop of the XXth International Grassland Congress, July 2005, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 51-64

  McGee, M ^a  

^a GRANGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

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Beef cattle; Concentrate supplementation; Grass silage

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EID: 84899346885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-553-6     Document Type: Chapter

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