Management of Length of Lactation and Dry Period to Increase Net Farm Income in a Simulated Dairy Herd
A computerized dairy herd simulation was developed to evaluate the economic impact of changing length of lactation relative to length of dry period in a dairy herd. It created weekly production for individual cows in a typical herd. Cows were dried off early if they were producing below a designat...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35916 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-120299-023338/ |