Performance of Stocker Cattle Grazing Cool-Season Annual Grass Mixtures in Northern Arkansas

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 465-473

  Beck, P A ^a   Hubbell, D S ^b   Watkins, K B ^c   Gunter, S A ^b   Daniels, L B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b Livestock and Forestry Branch Experiment Station   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Grazing; Growing Cattle; Ryegrass; Small Grain

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008199433     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31251-1     Document Type: Article

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