IPVS 2010: Satellite symposia

Bayer Animal Health The only key speaker, Prof Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University, presented a vision on the future of pork production. His thesis comes down to the fact that it is easiest and cheapest to have the pork produced where the corn is grown – since it is much more cost effective to transport (chilled) carcasses instead of bushels of corn. His projections are particularly interesting when considering the future of China, the world’s largest consumer of pork and a product