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About Phenotypic Acres
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our Berkshire family and friends.
We thank you for your support of P.A. owners Ben and Sarah Smith and herdsman Tyler Johnson since the transition of Phenotypic Acres to their leadership on March 1. Without their hard work and selfless commitment to the values and data driven breeding and production programs of 51 years, the sustainability of P.A. would not have been possible. We are deeply grateful for their integrity, work ethic, and knowledge. If you have not met them, we strongly encourage you to do so. They are passionate about Berkshires, the swine industry, and building lasting relationships. Peace, joy, health, and happiness to you and yours,
Pete and Lorraine and family.
About Phenotypic Acres, INC
We are Data Driven Berkshire Genetics!
For over 50 years we have been intensively selecting Berkshires hogs through the use of the most extensive testing procedures available to the swine industry. We have tested every herd sire and sow through on the farm progeny tests, public test stations, national STAGES program and National Progeny Test program. Because of these efforts we can more accurately predict the performance of the hogs we sell to guarantee your success. We wish to thank all of our customers for their business over the years.
Our goals
Having met our breeding goals for structure, carcass, and meat eating quality traits, the challenge is to breed to maintain them.
We are still improving growth rate, but it is a slow process when considering it is a medium lowly heritable trait and our selection differential is now limited because of the already highly attained growth rate.
Genetic improvement in maternal traits is extremely difficult considering the low inheritance of maternal traits and the large number of production factors entering into reproduction. Getting sows to wean 10 pigs and still breed on a regular cycle is still our goal. Weaning 25 pigs per sow per year is doable with the proper environmental control.