Pasture intake and milk production of dairy cows grazing annual ryegrass with or without corn silage supplementation

Animal Production Science

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1810-1816

  Miguel, Marcolino Frederico ^a   Ribeiro Filho, Henrique Mendonça Nunes ^a   Américo De Andrade, Ederson ^a   Genro, Teresa Cristina Moraes ^b   Delagarde, Rémy ^c  

^a SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c PEGASE   (France)

Author keywords

grazing behaviour; milk response; pasture mass; substitution rate

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; DRY MATTER; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; GRASS; GRAZING; MAIZE; MILK PRODUCTION; PASTURE; SILAGE;

EID: 84906313806     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: 18365787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AN14382     Document Type: Article

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