Benchmark Magazine Article Archive

As the world`s population grows rapidly and incomes rise, demand for animal protein and products is expected to increase by seventy percent. However, supplying such an upward demand while the number of farmers continually decrease is a problem which needs to be resolved so that ethical and economical constraints are kept to the forefront of the discussion on production practices.

For many of us, technology plays an active role in our daily lives much like the modern swine producer. While technology hasn’t always been in our swine barns, as our industry has developed over the years, producers have learned to use technology as a tool to be more productive and efficient.