Carlos Piñeiro

Mar 5, 2023 | pig333.com | Noelia Herrera |M.A. de Andrés |Carlos Piñeiro |María Aparicio |Maria Cristina Aparício

The current situation of the swine industry is marked by high production costs that directly affect the economic profitability of the business. That is why the main objective of today's pig farms is to achieve a balance between these high costs and the profits generated by production. A sow farm's profitability can be measured using several parameters, but the most commonly used is the number of piglets weaned/sow/year. Thus, genetic advances on farms have been oriented to increase sow prolificacy.