The sow herd is a profitability driver of breed to finish swine farms. Maintaining the sow herd's health status can help swine farms significantly improve pig survival and performance from birth to market weight, and therefore is crucial for a farm’s long-term profitability.

Watwarat Janjariyakul, Technical Sales Manager Southeast Asia at APC Inc believes that it is important to maintain a healthy culling ratio, at 30-40%, and a sow parity at 3-3.5.

He emphasizes that farms can improve the culling ratio by reducing the number of involuntary sows with better farm management and sow-care programs.