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6.1 The Adoption of a Protein System in Nutritional Advisory Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

B. R. Cottrill
B. R. Cottrill*
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The concept of feeding standards for farm livestock has developed in Europe during the last two centuries (Tyler, 1975). During that time, and in the light of both experimental findings and on-farm observations, feeding standards have continued to evolve both in concept and detail. Such developments are exemplified in the recent publications by the Agricultural Research Council (1980), Hagemeister and Kaufmann (1974), Burroughs, Trenkle and Vetter (1974), and Jarrige, Journet and Vérité (1978) containing new proposals for the evaluation of dietary protein for ruminants. In view of these developments, the time is right to consider the adoption of a new protein system in nutritional advisory work.

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6. The Need for and the Value of Proposed Schemes in Practice
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BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 6: Forage Protein in Ruminant Animal Production , 1982 , pp. 121 - 128
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1982

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