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Significant Accomplishments in Livestock Research during the Past 100 Years

Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506

Abstract

Introduction

The charge given is to describe and discuss that livestock research accomplished during the past 100 yr which is deemed to be most significant.

Significance lies largely in the mind of the observer. Each person has his/her own reference points, priorities, concerns, values and perceptions.

One would ask, "Should significance be to the livestock industry, to consumers, to total economic activity, or to the sciences? Should judged significance be based on precision and credibility of the research itself, the degree to which the perceived accomplishment was accepted and implemented, economic consequence, social consequence, or the degree to which the research accomplishment served as a base for later discoveries?" We did not select a single response to either of these questions.

There is no effort in this paper to repeat or to summarize previously published reviews of livestock research. Such reviews represent a large repository and provide generous coverage of livestock research activities of the past 100 yr.