Our farm is profitable because we are utilizing pasture ground that wouldn't be used otherwise. Four hundred acres of cornfields are available for gleaning by our sow herd in the fall. Fifty plus acres of interseeded clover following wheat is available in late July. These are important facts to understand farrowing time selection on our farm. Pigs would make an excellent addition to a farm for pasture renovation.
Pigs can be extremely rough on pasture.
Why not use unrung pigs on poor pasture instead of a plow. Then just level and reseed. Fertility would be taken care of by rotational grazed pigs. But our operation makes the most dollars for us with our available land, labor, and equipment. I thought I would answer some questions on breeding, gestating, farrowing, weaning, finishing, sorting, fencing and watering.