Sir William Weipers lecture. The limits to animal production.
The relationship between population and food supply was the subject of the 1979 Sir William Weipers lecture at the University of Glasgow on April 27 given by Sir Kenneth Blaxter of the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen. He considered the limits to agricultural production generally and to animal production in particular. A shortened version of his lecture is printed below.
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