Producing for Parma ham: How to survive?

Pig production in Italy is a one-off market. Specific detailed guidelines make it a sport in itself – a sport, however, that is more and more difficult to be practised. Pig Progress visited an Italian swine farm – and learnt about the precarious situation of pig farming in Italy. Suingrass pig farms can be found in the heart of the vast Po Plains, an area central to Italian pig production. The operation is a multi-site farrow-to-finish pig farming facility, owned by Lorenzo Fontanesi, aged 4