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The effects of artificial intelligence and the rise of the digital world will force us to rethink how we produce, process and distribute food
With AI, yields can be improved and grocers can understand consumers — and predict their behaviour — better than consumers know themselves
Banff speaker outlines key factors which he believes make the biggest contribution to the number of quality pigs weaned per sow.
There are literally dozens of different swine herd-recording programs. Most producers use a computer-based system to monitor performance, but do producers extract maximum value from their data? Ron Ketchem, a partner in Swine Management Services of Fremont, Nebraska, thinks not. Speaking at the Banff Pork Seminar, he described how his company analyzes data from moreUsing top 15 per cent of boars in AI program could add nearly $550,000 per year in profits in a 10,000-sow production system
While artificial insemination (AI) in pigs has become almost universal in the worldwide swine industry, it has a number of disadvantages, according to Michael Dyck from the University of Alberta. Changes to the way in which boars are used and AI techniques utilized can capture the increased genetic potential of higher-index boars and add significantConception rates by AI are lower but being able to select the sex is a bonus
