Javier Lorente Martín

We focus on moving surplus piglets, which forces us to use nurse sows. We explain two ways to do this in a very visual video.

Here are three basic rules for deciding if and when to do cross fostering and use nurse sows.

To ensure that each piglet intakes enough colostrum and to help the smallest piglets get it, split suckling should be used.

Javier Lorente tells us how to make newly weaned piglets comfortable and, above all, how to get them to start drinking and eating as soon as possible.

Javier Lorente outlines step by step the keys to reducing piglet stress during the weaning process.

Everything you need to know to successfully wean your piglets.

Interview with the owner of Yangxiang to understand a bit better the development of the project and what they have learned.

333, together with Javier Lorente, visits the spectacular Chinese farm in which 28,000 sows are housed in 9-storey buildings.

La Bonita farm is situated between tropical mountains at an altitude of 2000 m, giving it a high health status. During our visit they shared with us the management routines of the farm and they showed us the facilities, which included an interesting weaning feeder.

The views of experienced experts on what the ideal mating /early gestation barn should look like.

Joan Wennberg discusses with different experts how do they think that the ideal mating area design should be.

This time, Joan Wennberg discusses the different feeding and environmental control systems in the farrowing house with Heraclio Corchón and Javier Lorente

Joan Wennberg discusses the ideal farrowing facilities with Heraclio Corchón and Javier Lorente. They do not always agree, which makes reading this document even more interesting.

Key points to have and to keep high-performing work teams on our farms.

How do we get good workers? What must we do to keep them? And, mostly, what do I want on my farm and which workers do I need for that?

The cost of the staff entails between 6% and 7% of the total production costs of our pigs. Nevertheless, the staff influences this cost by 100%, because almost all the tasks on a farm are manual or controlled by the staff.