Selection indices offer potential for New Zealand sheep farmers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions per unit of product

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• Publication year

  2012

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  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2012-07-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Economics, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.22004/AG.ECON.159238
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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