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Coop, R. (1986) Subclinical parasitism The insidious effects of roundworms on lamb performance. Science and Quality Lamb Production, 24-5, Agricultural and Food Research Council, London. 

We are grateful to the Agricultural and Food Research Council for the award of a research grant in support of our work. 

This subject is discussed in depth in Chapter 4, Feed evaluation and diet formulation in the Agriculture and Food Research Council (AFRC) advisory manual Energy and Protein Requirements of Ruminants (Alderman and Cottrill, 1993), and more recently by Coleman et al. (1999). 

The authors are very grateful to the Director, and staff of the Scottish Crops Research Institute for provision of fruit and helpl l discussions, and the University of Stradiclyde Research and Development Fund, Agricultural and Food Research Council and Chivas Bros (Keith) Ltd for support. 

Ve thank the Vinston Churchill Memorial Trust, Ciba-Geigy (Basle) and the American Chemical Society for supporting this work, and Lesley Newton and Jill Hartnoll for experimental assistance. Long Ashton Research Station is financed through the Agricultural and Food Research Council. 

We thank Dr. D. Mottram for valuable discussion. Studies at Bristol have been funded by the Wellcome Trust, Agricultural and Food Research Council, the Milk Marketing Board and the Royal Society. 

This work was supported by the Agricultural and Food Research Council (UK) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 

This work was supported by the Agricultural and Food Research Council. W.-Z.He is a recipient of a Sino-British Friendship Scholarship. We thank Dr D. Chapman, Mrs J. Farmer and Mr J. De Felice for preparing the reaction centres. 

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Agricultural and Food Research Council 1991 Technical Committee on Responses to Nutrients, Report no. 6. A reappraisal of the calcium and phosphorus requirements of sheep and cattle. Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Series B 61 573-612. 

The Agricultural and Food Research Council, in its 1992 publication (see Further reading), describes the efficiency of utilisation of truly digested true protein in terms of the limiting efficiency of use of an ideally balanced amino acid mixture (kaaj), taken as 0.85 under most conditions and 1.0 for maintenance. Relative values (RV) were then proposed for different functions ... 

The Agricultural and Food Research Council in 1993 proposed the use of the Morant equation (1989) ... 

The UK Agricultural and Food Research Council proposed in 1992 the following equation for predicting the intake of silage by cattle ... 

Agricultural and Food Research Council 1987 Technical Committee on Responses to Nutrients, report no. 2. Characterisation of feedstuffs nitrogen. Nutrition Abstracts and Remews, Series B Livestock Feeds and Feeding 57 713 36. 

Acknowledgements. This work is supported by the UK Agricultural and Food Research Council. Permission from Dr A.D. Tomos, UCNW, Bangor, to reproduce data contained in Fig. 1 is gratefully acknowledged. 

Acknowledgements, We wish to thank Dale Sanders for a pre-print copy of reference [30], and permission to present his results. We acknowledge research funding from the Agricultural and Food Research Council (UK), the Science and Engineering Research Council (UK), and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. 

Acknowledgements We wish to thank the Agricultural and Food Research Council and the Science and Engineering Research Council for financial support for the work carried out in our laboratory. 

These studies were financed by the Agriculture and Food Research Council, U.K. and by the Nuffield Foundation. The expert technical assistance of Duncan Libby is greatly appreciated. 

Agricultural and Food Research Council. 1993. Energy and Protein Requirements of Ruminants. CAB International, Wallingford, U.K. 

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