Author: glcfarmsltd

Last week, while attending the World Pork Conference in China, I visited Muyuan Foods’ multi-storey farm at Jimo. And when I say multi-storey, I mean it literally. Built in 2020/21 for around £17 million, the 30-metre-high building contains six floors of pigs. The top two floors house around 4,000 sows, with nursery and finishing pigs…

Pigs weaned per sow per year — PSY — is the single most important metric in swine production. It determines your cost of production, your profitability, and ultimately the long-term viability of your operation. Yet across Asian pig farms, from Vietnam to China to Thailand, PSY consistently underperforms global benchmarks. The good news: the gap…