Set-up for semen collection

摘要

At the end of 2007, Suinosul Farm in southern Brazil signed a contract with the local pork processing plant to maintain 750 F1 sows in production and to sell the piglets to the processor at 22kg liveweight for finishing on other units. This brought animportant change for the farm. Although the farm had produced breeding stock for sale to independent farmers since 1978, it was still using natural service. To meet the new situation we decided to work with artificial insemination (AI) for the terminalboars.