[1] Maggie Mitchell is Chief Executive of the British Society of Animal Science.
[3] The first Proceedings was published in 1951.ISSN 0369-8521 The editors soon started accepting papers on animal production.
[4] In 1959 the society established a dedicated journal, Animal Production, for this purpose.
[4] In 1995, the society was renamed, and the journal retitled to Animal Science.
The society presents the Sir John Hammond Award at the annual conference.