Javier Lorente Martín

This time, Joan Wennberg discusses the different feeding and environmental control systems in the farrowing house with Heraclio Corchón and Javier Lorente

Joan Wennberg discusses the ideal farrowing facilities with Heraclio Corchón and Javier Lorente. They do not always agree, which makes reading this document even more interesting.

Key points to have and to keep high-performing work teams on our farms.

How do we get good workers? What must we do to keep them? And, mostly, what do I want on my farm and which workers do I need for that?

The cost of the staff entails between 6% and 7% of the total production costs of our pigs. Nevertheless, the staff influences this cost by 100%, because almost all the tasks on a farm are manual or controlled by the staff.

Finding alternatives to reduce the number of nurse sows by maximising the number of suckling piglets per sow.

It is very important that all the staff on the farm can know quickly what is going on in the farrowing quarters, because in this way everybody will be able to carry out the daily duties in this area.

The goal is to make the management during the gestation easier using a different colour spray colour each week to mark the tasks carried out with the sows.

A simple method to facilitate the daily calculation of the nurse sows needed for the correct running of the farrowing quarters in a hyperprolific sows system.