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Species deep dive // Swine: Where must innovation deliver now?
A market expert and swine producer or integrator set out the disease, feed, labor, workforce, and continuity pressures reshaping pork-production economics, before participants divide into focused working groups to test where innovation can prevent loss and improve performance. Table leads then report the priority problems, evidence gaps, and partnerships identified, building a practical roadmap for the pilots, investment, and industry action needed next.
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Swine businesses operate across interconnected sites, where disease pressure, feed loss, labor constraints, and inconsistent execution can quickly multiply costs across sow farms, nurseries, and finishing barns. Where is value being lost, why are current health programs and practices falling short, and which problems are costly enough to justify a new solution?
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Working groups take the producer’s challenges into animal health, supply continuity, labor, nutrition, genetics, and data, testing how big each problem is, whether solutions perform consistently across barns and sites, and whether they prevent enough loss to justify wider deployment. The aim is a clear case for the pilots, commercial models, and investments worth advancing.
Discussion themes:
- PRRS, PEDV, and earlier disease intervention
- African swine fever preparedness and business continuity
- Labor, robotics, and smarter barn operations
- Precision nutrition, weaning, and feed-cost resilience
- Disease-resistant genetics and market acceptance
- Turning swine data into faster production decisions
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