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D-sow Dictionary

Sow

A female breeding pig

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Plain meaning
A female breeding pig
How to use it
Plan the unit around the number of sows; every other figure follows from it.
South African benchmark
South Africa runs industrialised pig units with large sow herds (Article 67).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M11-U6
Calculate it
T-M11-02 Sow Productivity
Library sources
LIB-A067, LIB-P-Pork
See also
Farrowing, Pigs per sow per year
Pork: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedPork: how the business runsSold bykg carcass weight1Sow farrows2Wean3Grow4Finish5Abattoir or butcherZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Pork Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M11 Pork.