Thank you very much.
I cannot say that it will be a success. What is important is that we selected those projects because we think that maybe some of those projects can be game changers. For example, one of these is an evolved automatic feeding system, an individual feeding system for pigs. It's already used for dairy production, but we think that with the technology we have, we could use it for swine production. If we succeed in this, we think we can lower the cost of production by at least $4 per hog. We think we can lower the level of phosphorus.
I'm going to continue in French, with your permission.
We think we can make significant environmental gains by reducing the levels of phosphorus and nitrogen excreted by hogs by 20% to 30%. That means that the environmental impact is major. However, this is a research project in which the findings will be known in three years. It's a project that can change the way we do things. The challenge we'll have, once feasibility has been demonstrated, will be to provide our farms with this equipment in order to start feeding hogs individually. So there are all the costs associated with that, but the economic gains are major. That's one example.
The other example concerns genomics. We know perfectly well that dazzling progress is being made in the field of genomics. Single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs, are parts of genes that can be identified on chips. We can now put 60,000 SNPs on a chip. These tools were not available 10 years ago. They have been developed for human medicine and are now used in milk. For pork, we believe that, if we can establish a proof of concept, we will be able to determine the quality of pork meat on a living animal based on the SNPs we find in its genes. It will therefore not be necessary to slaughter a hog to determine whether its meat is of high quality. That will enable us to identify hogs that have very high potential and meet quality standards.
These are quite important projects requiring efforts on everyone's part, but they are worth the risk. That is why we have accepted them and we hope the results will be positive. If they are, in three years, we will focus on commercialization or on ensuring that our producers are the first ones to use them.