Keynote Address

The Energy Crisis and The Future of Our Nation's Animal Industry

Abstract

The challenges facing our nation. have never been greater. Likewise the challenges facing our nation's animal industry have never been greater. One of the most formidable challenges to all of agriculture as well as to the total economy of our nation is that posed by the energy crisis.

Next to inflation, the energy crisis looms as our nation's most serious problem. It almost goes without saying that the greatest challenge to our future well-being involves the question of whether we are willing to "bite the bullet" in terms of our committment to the solution to our nation's energy problem. That we must effect a strong committment is no longer a matter of choice.