On February 29th 2012, on farmscape.ca radio, Dr. Laurie Conner of the University of Manitoba discussed New tools being developed for coverting to group housing systems

A large issue facing the pig industry these days is sow housing. There is pressure being applied on pork producers to phase out gestation housing. This will require considerable barn renovations to adjust old barns to barns more in line with acceptable animal welfare practices. Tools are being developed to help producers decide what new system would be best for there operation based on things like there current feed system, and operation size. The tools require producers to input their current barn design and the system will come up the best new model for that barn, based on things like engineering and costs.

To listen to the interview click here: Tools Under Development to Identify Group Housing Systems for Individual Management Systems