Why precision farming takes its time with pigs

Pig Progress editor Vincent ter Beek attended a very interesting and relevant conference on Precision Livestock Farming (PLF). He learnt about why monitoring of individual finishing pigs can offer many opportunities – and why the industry seems hesitant to embrace the promising technology. Did you know that finisher pigs in a barn can walk up to 4 km per day? And did you know that finisher pigs sometimes form couples while eating? Perhaps you shrug, but to me it was new information that I hea