In 1973, the farm was incorporated into the Taiwan Hog Research Institute and its name was changed to the Animal Husbandry Research Institute. The task of this new organization is to introduce new breeding hogs for the benefit of individual hog farmers as well as the Taisugar farm.
畜研所不僅負有引進種豬，繁殖供應台糖及民間各養豬場的任務外，在研究大規模科學化養豬的工作上，績效卓著，不僅使台糖公司的養豬事業擴展迅速，更帶動台灣整個養豬事業邁向企業化、科學化的新境界。