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A Prototype Tool to Enable Farmers to Measure and Improve the Welfare Performance of the Farm Animal Enterprise: The Unified Field Index

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Benchmarking is a tool widely used in agricultural industries that harnesses the experience of farmers to generate knowledge of practices that lead to better on-farm productivity and performance. We propose, by analogy with production performance, a method for measuring the animal we...

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Autores principales: Colditz, Ian G., Ferguson, Drewe M., Collins, Teresa, Matthews, Lindsay, Hemsworth, Paul H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26480317
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani4030446