How To Improve Reproductive Efficiency in Sows?

Remember, It's All About the Sows With increasing production costs due to labor, feed, and other external factors, Dr. Stalder approaches improving efficiencies by through sow longevity and sow genetics. Several take aways: Many traits genetically correlated with sow productive lifetime and can be improved through selection; We cannot ignore the people factor on any production process including pork production; and caretaker skills / stockmanship / management ability, effects on the sow productivity cannot be underestimated [video].