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.
Maize and soybean meal are the global standard for pig ration formulation for good reason — their nutrient composition is well-characterized, well-balanced, and highly digestible, and the global feed industry’s…
Most commercial pig operations feed gilts and barrows the same ration in the same pens at the same time. This is the path of least resistance — one ration to…
Mycotoxin contamination is the problem that most West African commercial pig operations are carrying without knowing it. Not because the damage is absent — it is measurable, substantial, and recurring…
A finisher pig’s daily gain is not limited by how much feed it eats. In most commercial production contexts, pigs in the 60–110 kg weight range are fed ad libitum…
Of all the nutrients a pig consumes, water is the most abundant, the cheapest per unit, and — when restricted — the most rapidly consequential. A pig can tolerate days…
The single largest lever available to reduce pig production costs is not genetics, not housing, not labor — it is the feed formulation sitting in the feed bin. Feed accounts…
If a commercial pig farm tracked only one performance number, feed conversion ratio (FCR) would be the correct choice. It is the single metric that most directly translates the farm’s…
A newborn piglet weighs approximately 1.3–1.5 kg and survives entirely on the sow’s milk. At market weight, the same animal weighs 100–110 kg and has been eating solid feed for…
Purchased commercial pig feed carries a price premium that reflects more than just ingredient cost — it includes the feed manufacturer’s processing cost, transport and distribution margin, and the manufacturer’s…
Feed accounts for 60–70% of the total cost of producing a market pig. No other single input — not housing, not labor, not health management — carries comparable weight in…
