Variation in Milk Fat, Protein, and Somatic Cell Count from Four Dairy Herd Improvement Laboratories
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Dairy Science
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0022-0302
DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(86)80657-9