ACMC Tip: Get Cover for Reduced Fertility

Increasing services over the risk period is essential to compensate for the reduced farrowing rates and to ensure that finishing accommodation is stocked at the optimum level

Gilt inputs need to be lifted to maintain throughput without retaining old, less-productive sows in their later parities. Now is the time to speak to breeding stock suppliers to ensure replacements are lined up, he advises.

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