Yields of Farmed Species starts by taking an overview of progress in agricultural productivity world-wide.

Yields of Farmed Species prospects for crops and livestock are assessed in detail.

Contents

1. Do we need higher farm yields during the first half of the 21st century?
2. Impact of liberalization of food and land markets on agrarian land use in the EU
3. Crop improvement technologies for the 21st century
4. Reproductive rate in farm animals
5. Allying genetic and physiological innovations to improve productivity of wheat and other crops
6. Limits to yield of farm species
7. Global warming and agriculture
8. Limits to efficiencies of primary production
9. The future of chemical crop protection
10. Plant breeding in the 21st century
11. Future wheat yields: evidence, theory and conjecture
12. The rise and fall of grain legumes and their predicted yields in UK agriculture
13. Physiological and technological limits to yield improvement of potatoes
14. Yield of UK oilseed rape
15. Productivity, biodiversity and sustainability
16. Physiological limitations, nutrient partitioning
17. Livestock yield trends
18. Epidemiology of livestock diseases
19. Livestock - genomics and productivity
20. Yield trends in UK dairy and beef cattle
21. Yield of sheep
22. Livestock yields now and to come: pigs
23. Limits to the performance of poultry
24. Nutritional value and yield of forages for livestock
25. Possible futures for agriculture in Northern Europe during a policy of reform
26. Future directions for productivity in UK agriculture

Index

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