Immunological castration unlocks value for sustainable pork supply chain
Rising input costs, disease outbreaks, trade restrictions and channel customer mandates have challenged the pork supply chain in recent years to work harder to remain profitable. In such an integrated industry, changes at any level will likely have a ripple effect throughout the industry. Global meat packers have benefitted from a technology that illustrates this trend. Immunological castration (IC) has been implemented in more than 60 countries worldwide for as many as 10 years and is proving to be a profitable transition for farmers and meatpackers alike.
De Stoop, a pork-processing company in Belgium, has been processing immunologically castrated male pigs for three years.