Finding Faster, Cheaper Ways to Get to Bacon
Livestock companies such as Smithfield Foods are breeding generations of pigs with new traits
The hog industry wants to build a better pig.
It wants its livestock to grow faster, consume less feed, tolerate heat better, resist disease and produce larger litters of piglets—all goals for intensive breeding programs that look years into the future.
"Whatever decisions we make today, we will see come to fruition in 2030," says Kent Gray, general manager of the genetics business at Smithfield Foods, the largest pork supplier in...
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