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This system does not provide an improvement in the production data, but a saving in energy costs and a better use of the resources in general.

The next time you hear someone over lunch tell you the value of a tenth improvement in FCR, unless they are drawing a distribution on your napkin, tell them you don’t run an average pig business so you are not interested in their average values.

At a moment in which the prices of the raw materials, although they are giving us a break, are still very high, it is essential to take some time to think about the use of enzymes in swine.

What further increases profitability in pig production is not minimizing costs, but maximizing revenue.

Time will tell if PEDV is the cause but weaned pig and feeder pig prices began to turn up in June, a couple of months ahead of their traditional seasonal bottoming with the turn toward seasonal highs which peak usually in February or March.

When you earn a profit, you have created more tangible value than the cost of the scarce global resources used to create your final product.

This is done by moving from single most likely value to ranges of possible outcomes with an assigned probability

In September Spain has started a downward trend spiral. The livestock supply is very high, and the maximum activity of the abattoirs cannot even absorb it.