How the pig farming industry can break out of its predicament and align with the international market

As is well known, sow breeding is the core of the pig farming industry. With the rapid development of the pig farming industry, China's traditional pig farming model can no longer meet the rapidly developing social needs. Aligning China's pig farming industry with the international community is also an inevitable development trend, and sow breeding management is the key point in aligning with international standards.

China is a major pig-farming country, but its productivity is extremely low, with a large gap compared to developed countries such as those in Europe and America. China's feed industry has developed for more than 20 years, and from formulation to production processes it is world-class, having already achieved the utmost in feeding. So why is it that abroad a pig can be profitable at a feed-to-meat ratio of 5:1, while in China it still loses money at 7:1? The most fundamental reason is the problem of sow feeding: sows have low reproductive capacity and a high culling rate. So how can we rescue the current state of pig farming and align with the international market?

China mostly adopts a gestation crate housing system. This system can control the feed intake of pregnant sows relatively accurately, but it greatly restricts the sows' movement, keeping them in a state of prolonged stress, lowering their own immunity and weakening disease resistance. This leads to an extremely high culling rate of sows in Chinese pig farms, a greatly shortened service life of sows, and a low survival rate during the lactation and piglet-rearing periods. These factors are the fundamental causes brought about by sow management. However, in Western Europe, some developed countries such as the Netherlands began using intelligent sow management more than a decade ago. This system has now been widely promoted and applied throughout Europe, achieving a high degree of automated control over the entire production process, with automatic feeding, automatic management, and automatic data transmission, thereby driving improvements in production efficiency.

The great development of China's pig farming industry and the rise of large-scale pig farming are matters of the past nearly 20 years. However, today Chinese people are also facing the awkward situation that Westerners faced more than 40 years ago. If 20 years ago Chinese people transplanted the Western factory-farming model of pig production and swallowed both the essence and the dregs, then today, when some of the dregs have become prominent, what can we do but reflect and devise strategies?
 

The intelligent sow feeding system——the electronic sow feeding station, is an inevitable product of technological development and the intelligent, automated development of pig farms. The electronic sow feeding station can perfectly satisfy all the digital needs of a pig farm. For large pig farms, gilts can be tagged with ear tags at birth, and detailed records can be established within the system, for example, date of birth and so on can all be recorded in detail. These records provide first-hand information for handling gilts in the future. During the sow's production process, the date of first pregnancy, the date of estrus, and the interval between each estrus can be recorded in detail. These data provide detailed and accurate information for selecting the superior and eliminating the inferior among sows. The electronic sow feeding station can achieve accurate feed amounts for each pig under free-range conditions, and can automatically calculate each sow's daily feed amount for the sow based on its pregnancy date, and control the feeder to dispense feed for the sow. This is more accurate, precise, and convenient, saving feed and saving labor.

Nanshang Nongke's electronic sow feeding station is currently a first-class automated and intelligent electronic feeding device for free-range sows in China. Our product's eight unique advantages:

1. Mechanical linkage door design, the only eating behavior that is more scientific, avoiding miscarriage caused by sows fighting over food;

2. Wireless communication mode, avoiding the danger of mice biting through wires and lightning strikes, making signal transmission more scientific;

3. The perfect combination of RF card reader and feed level sensor, avoiding waste of leftover feed while feeding precisely;

4. Grouping pigs of different states according to their habits and feeding them by unit is more reasonable;

5. Spiral feeding bowl dispensing mode, making dispensing more precise;

6. Modular control makes maintenance more convenient;

7. Centralized low-voltage power supply mode is more reliable;

8. Higher cost-effectiveness, more suitable for domestic pig farms.