What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Imprinting

In a very long career in and around pig production, I have seen many good ideas – some of them brilliant – that for various reasons, have never taken off. Some due to apathy (too much of this in my opinion), or down to expense, others from poor promotion and a few, to my mind, from quite unfathomable reasons as generally the reports about them were very favourable. Innovations such as the Pig Train, the Stanford creep feeder – way ahead of its time – the farrowing box, the Cusum