‘2013’ coming too quick for many French producers

Deux mille treize – two thousand and thirteen. This was probably the most frequently used number at SPACE this year. The annual French livestock show in Rennes, France (13-16 September), took the opportunity to zoom in on the urgency to switch to sow group housing, as the deadline of 2013 is approaching. It depends on how you look at it of course. For professionals from e.g. Denmark, Sweden or the UK, where the vast majority of breeders have already switched to group housing, a conversion rate