The Infrastructure & Production category covers the foundation of setting up and running a piggery, focusing on farm design, breed selection, and farrowing management. It provides step-by-step guides on building optimal housing systems—such as intensive or deep litter setups—and selecting high-performing genetics like Large White or Duroc. Additionally, this section offers critical insights into managing the sensitive birthing process and early piglet care to dramatically reduce mortality rates and optimize space efficiency.
The Operations & Agribusiness category focuses on the technical day-to-day management, health protocols, and economic strategies needed to scale a profitable commercial farm. This section delivers expert advice on precision swine nutrition and alternative feed formulation to aggressively reduce Feed Conversion Ratios (FCR). It also bridges the gap between daily operations and profitability by offering comprehensive biosecurity frameworks for disease prevention, farm record-keeping metrics, and post-farm marketing strategies to help you secure the highest margins for your pork.
A piggery is a facility designed and managed for the commercial production of pigs. It encompasses the housing, feeding systems, health management, breeding program, and waste management infrastructure that together…
The pen determines the pig’s life. The layout determines the farm’s efficiency. And both, once built, are permanent — the most consequential infrastructure decisions a pig farmer makes before the…
The pen area per pig is the most permanent decision made before production begins. Once concrete is poured and walls are built, the floor space available to each animal is…
The breed decision is where pig farm profitability begins. Before the first feed bag is purchased, before the first pen is built, the genetic architecture of the animals that will…
The pig pen built incorrectly costs twice as much. It costs the materials and labor to build it. Then it costs the production losses — from inadequate drainage creating wet…
Water is the most important nutrient a pig consumes, and the one most consistently undervalued in farm design. A finishing pig at 80 kg live weight drinks 8–12 liters per…
Lameness is the third most economically significant health problem in commercial pig production globally, behind reproductive failure and respiratory disease. It costs the industry billions in treatment, reduced growth performance,…
The conventional pig house asks one thing of the farmer every day without exception: move the manure. Scrape the concrete, push it into the channel, flush the drains, repeat —…
