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.
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 —…
