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Analysis by Parity to Improve Performance
2013-08-12 19:03:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services, LLC, Fremont, NE Swine Management Services (SMS) added parity benchmarking as part of a completely new farm benchmarking program unveiled at the 2013 World Pork Expo. The new program includes data that supplements all of the information that makes up the original program that was introduced in 2005. We have also incorporated the knowledge we have gained over the past four years in writing these articles and reviewing data from over 100 farms. There has always been a very large variation in production numbers from farm to farm. For this article we selected 228 farms and 495,000 females from the new SMS benchmarking database. read more
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