Grazing Soybean to Increase Voluntary Cow Traffic in a Pasture-based Automatic Milking System
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Grazing Soybean to Increase Voluntary Cow Traffic in a Pasture-based Automatic Milking System
Pasture-based automatic milking systems (AMS) require cow traffic to enable cows to be milked. The interval between milkings can be manipulated by strategically allocating pasture. The current experiment investigated the effect of replacing an allocation of grazed pasture with grazed soybean (Glycine max) with the hypothesis that incorporating soybean would increase voluntary cow traffic and mi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1011-2367,1976-5517
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2013.13433