Optimising financial return from grazing in temperate pastures

Utilisation of Grazed Grass in Temperate Animal Systems: Proceedings of a Satellite Workshop of the XXth International Grassland Congress, July 2005, Cork, Ireland

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 131-147

  Dillon, P ^a   Roche, J R ^b   Shalloo, L ^a   Horan, B ^a  

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

^b Dexcel Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cash cost; Confinement TMR system; Grazed grass; Pasture based system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899389729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-554-3     Document Type: Chapter

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