Page 2 of articles about productivity
Effect of suckling intensity of primiparous sows on production performance during current and subsequent parities
Weaning-to-service interval: not only non-productive days
It is not only related to NPDs, but it can also have a greater impact than we first thought.
I didn’t change anything. Why did my productivity go down?
When productivity decreases, but productive efficiency is maintained...
Managing our farms II. Training
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?
Are sows asking for the pig334? (2/2)
Thanks to the combination of a decrease in the number of stillborn and an almost 30% decrease of preweaning mortality (down to 10.2%), the ultimate goal is finally achieved: to wean an additional piglet per sow.
Understanding the sow farm in terms of finisher profitability
We hear a lot of talk about optimizing profitability in grow-finish through reducing standard deviation of marketed weights and aiming that tighter weight group at the profit optimal average weight at the time of marketing. It’s a bit like playing darts, you want the darts to be in tight group but it is also necessary to be near the bull’s eye on the target.
Non-productive days (1/2): €16,000 hidden in gestation
Let us see the case of a farm with 5 non-productive days more than the average of the farms with the same profile. Where are these days lost?
Big brother enters pig farms
US swine industry productivity analysis, 2005 to 2010
Small piglets born to young sows: a very dangerous combination (III): Effects on the nurseries
The piglets born to primiparous sows show a worse performance during the nursery stage and a twofold risk of dying than the piglets born to multiparous sows.
Causes of the losses/cullings of the sows: a tower of Babel (II)
It's necessary to promote a standardization of the causes of the losses/cullings of the sows. Some rules on which this standardization can be based on are proposed.
The live weight of the piglets weaned at 28 days: a decisive factor for a good post-weaning adaptation?
The performance decrease suffered by the piglets when weaned is one of the most worrying factors at the pig farms.
Competitive advantages with the use of information (II) – Another step towards the real-time management of the swine sector?
In a very near future we will have an enormous amount of data with more speed and ease than ever, and also from very different origins.