Herbage intake and behavioural adaptation of grazing dairy cows by restricting time at pasture under two feeding regimes
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- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Animal
- Vol. 2 (9), 1384-1392
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1751731108002486
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