Implications of automatic milking on animal welfare

Automatic milking, a better understanding

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 371-381

  Wiktorsson, Hans ^a   Sørensen, Jan Tind ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences   (Denmark)

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