Are breeding policies optimising genetic progress?

摘要

Maintaining genetic improvement should be a pivotal objective of any pig production enterprise. In an ideal world commercial herds should be able to capitalise on the incremental advances made year on year by genetics companies to improve productivityat every stage.By accessing more of the genetic potential available in modern genotypes, businesses will improve productivity and a balanced appraisal of the breeding strategy could help unleash more of this untapped reserve.