Livestock Efficiency
topic on 1 show · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Livestock Efficiency, every show
Grunwald: Global agricultural and livestock yields have tripled since the 1960s
“Basically, we've tripled yields since the 19 sixties. So we're producing three times as much food, as much calories, as much protein per acre. You know, our livestock efficiency has also increased by a factor of three.”
Brooke: Livestock methane research focused purely on productivity until the early 2000s
“For the, in the guise of, if we can yield that energy that's going to methane into milk or meat, we can have far more productive animals. And so that's really been the focus of a lot of the research until the, you know, the early 2000. We really started to shi…”