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Eating less does not mean more productivity

Common sense suggests if they eat less, surely they'll cost less to feed.

Jill Griffiths

Professor Wayne Pitchford, University of Adelaide, said that's what he thought for 20 years, but his recent research has turned that idea on its head. "I used to think that we wanted to select the animals...

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