Yields of Farmed Species

Julian Wiseman has worked at the University of Nottingham, UK for many years. He is a Professor of Animal Production with a major emphasis on research into pig nutrition. He has published extensively; is the author 3 books on pigs, and he has edited another 25 books. These include topics such as animal feedstuffs, poultry, rabbit, and ruminant production. He has translated 3 books from French into English. Professor Wiseman has been a co-author of 11 volumes of the annual series Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition, published by Nottingham University Press.

Do we need higher farm yields during the first half of the 21st century? * Impact of liberalisation of food and land markets on agrarian land use in the EU * Crop improvement technologies for the 21st century * Reproductive rate in farm animals * Allying genetic and physiological innovations to improve productivity of wheat and other crops * Limits to yield of farm species * Global warming and agriculture * Limits to efficiencies of primary production * The future of chemical crop protection * Plant breeding in the 21st century * Future wheat yields: evidence, theory and conjecture * The rise and fall of grain legumes and their predicted yields in UK agriculture * Physiological and technological limits to yield improvement of potatoes * Yield of UK oilseed rape * Productivity, biodiversity and sustainability * Physiological limitations, nutrient partitioning * Livestock yield trends * Epidemiology of livestock diseases * Livestock - genomics and productivity * Yield trends in UK dairy and beef cattle * Yield of sheep * Livestock yields now and to come: pigs * Limits to the performance of poultry * Nutritional value and yield of forages for livestock * Possible futures for agriculture in Northern Europe during a policy of reform * Future directions for productivity in UK agriculture * Index