Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (New Series)

Table of Contents - Volume 4 - 1975  

59th Meeting, Bangor, 16 to 19 September 1974: Report of Meeting on Meat from the Hills

The contribution of science to the improvement of hill pasture production

M. B. Alcocka1

a1 Department of Agriculture, University College of North Wales, Memorial Buildings, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW

At a recent conference on marginal land (Jenkins, Oxley and Gething, 1974) a conclusion was reached that hill land must ultimately contribute more to the growing requirements of food production. Setting aside the economic and sociological constraints, which at present are large, it is clear that increased animal production from the hills is basically a problem of providing sufficient feed. Improved pasture production is therefore a primary prerequisite for this aim.