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Research—Doorway to the Future

Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana

Abstract

Livestock producers now use large amounts of science and technology. Profits are increasingly dependent upon one's ability to keep abreast with research developments in breeding, in nutrition, in disease control, and in a dozen related fields.

The remarkable thing about science in the livestock pen is that it has now set the stage for revolutionary changes in production and marketing.

Research has given us animals tailored to market demand, and formula feeds that can be efficiently converted into meat. Research has also given us better methods of disease control, new ideas and equipment for labor saving, and techniques for stepping up yields per breeding unit.

The advances you scientists are producing on the livestock front are but a part of the great American Dream.