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Hello, and welcome back to my blog. ( The Daily Oink! ) My name is Nevaeh, and I am going to be talking about pig ear notching. Pig notching is used for identification on pigs. Methods to distinguish individual pigs by marking their ears with a series of nicks and holes. How pig notching works is that the right ear is connected with the litter number. The left ear is connected by the individual pig number. A common system that uses a grid with values like 1, 3, 9, and 81. It’s best to perform notching when the pigs are very young, ideally with the first week of life, to ensure it’s done efficiently. https://extensionpubs.unl.edu/publication/g1880/na/html/view https://mercyforanimals.org/blog/meat-industry-mutilates-piglets/ Why they use this is because unlike ear tags, notches are permanent marks that cannot be lost or damaged in the long term. It allows farmers to fallow an individual pigs life, including health and performance issues. Notching is a requirement for identification in t...

Hello and welcome back to my blog. The daily oink. My name is Nevaeh Warmington. Today is Saturday, November 1, 2025 and I’m going to be talking about the main 3 pig producers. https://www.largescaleagriculture.com/home/news-details/top-10-largest-pork-producers-worldwide The top producer overall is Muyuan Foodstuff in china. Publicly traded Muyuan Foodstuff is an integrated feed producer, and also has interests in pig breeding, slaughtering and processing. The agribusiness enterprise includes more than 300 subsidiaries and two shareholding companies. https://www.feedstrategy.com/top-feed-companies/company/muyuan-foodstuff https://genesus.com/the-global-mega-producers-muyuan-foods/ The second is Wens Group in china. Wens Food Group is a leading producer of poultry and pigs in China, having consolidated 390 companies to encompass 49,800 family farms across China. It sells in more than 20 provinces and municipalities. In 2017, the company pivoted into livestock slaughtering and meat proc...