You may already know about the Prairie Swine
Centre but are you familiar with all that we
do? What unique characteristics and abilities
have we lurking in the shadows that you know little
about? Let’s get reacquainted.
Of course we do research. It is our main
objective and raison d’etre but I would like to take
the time to remind you about the breadth and
scope of our abilities. For starters unlike many
research facilities ours is large and follows standard
commercial practices. We are a 330 sow farrow
to finish operation located just outside of the city of
Saskatoon. Our barn functions as a typical North
American swine barn with typical production, for
example we produce 27 pigs weaned per sow per
year. So along with the usual daily challenges of
running a hog operation we add on the intricacies of
running scientific experiments.