Source: Chris Hurt, INDIANA FARMER, 2/6/18


It has been a long time now, but back when I was a full-time hog farmer in the late 1970s, I averaged about seven pigs weaned per litter. I was a little below average, but not by much. At that time, if you wanted to raise more hogs, you got more sows. It didn’t occur to us that we might be able to intensify our management and focus on getting more pigs from each of those litters.

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