The Brazilian pork crisis: What to do to stay alive?

Once upon a time, Brazil was the place where pig farming paid off, no matter what. But nowadays, even Brazilian pig farming is down to reducing costs to keep ensuring productivity gains. One of the first items to be checked is feed conversion, as feed answers for 80% of total production costs.       Brazilian pig farmers have not forgotten what was probably the worst crisis in the pig industry in the last decades – it happened as from 2003. In the years prior to that, an in