Focus on boar taint

The way is open for EU swine producers to raise male pigs intact, with improved feed conversion and carcass quality compared to castrates, while still reducing boar taint as effectively as castration. In this series, Pig Progress focuses on the journey to develop a vaccine to control boar taint, its most recent implementations and the consequences for European – and global – pig production. Part 1. The beginning of the end of castration The number of countries in which a vaccine against boa