In accordance with PQA Plus standards, your answer should be “c” to every question. Even though the answer is sometimes obvious when it is spelled out, it's not that simple to apply in everyday production. Labor is short, holidays wreak havoc with our schedules, profits are low and family obligations take priority.

Summary

Finally, if HFA and HBO come to your farm to film a documentary, the best-case scenario would be if they got bored and went home. We must get to the point where we are completely comfortable allowing any meat-eating consumer off the street into our facilities and their response would be, “Oh, that's nice.”

If your sows are ready for that kind of transparency, then I'm guessing that your sow mortality is already under control. If not, what are you waiting for?