On-farm evaluation of models to predict herbage intake of dairy cows grazing temperate semi-natural grasslands

The objective of the present on-farm study was to evaluate the adequacy of existing models in predicting the pasture herbage DM intake (PDMI) of lactating dairy cows grazing semi-natural grasslands. The prediction adequacy of 13 empirical and semi-mechanistic models, which were predominantly develop...

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Main Authors: S. Perdana-Decker, E. Velasco, J. Werner, U. Dickhoefer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-05-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731123001027