Producing sex-sorted sperm with 99% accuracy

Ask a pig producer about what he or she doesn’t like and often ‘castration’ is mentioned. A novel concept from the United States may make castration practices a thing of the past. Genetic technology will soon enable the birth of female-only pigs. When high-accuracy sex-sorted sperm becomes available to the global pig industry, the benefits realised by both commercial swine producers and genetics companies will be substantial. This is the view of Dr Jon Meadus, among many others. Meadus is