Beef Cattle: Keeping a Small-Scale Herd for Pleasure and Profit
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Ann Larkin Hansen., & Ann Larkin Hansen|AUTHOR. (2011). Beef Cattle: Keeping a Small-Scale Herd for Pleasure and Profit . Fox Chapel Publishing.

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Ann Larkin Hansen and Ann Larkin Hansen|AUTHOR. Beef Cattle: Keeping a Small-Scale Herd for Pleasure and Profit Fox Chapel Publishing, 2011.

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