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Are you looking at your grower closeouts?
2015-05-04 18:31:00| National Hog Farmer
By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE Benchmarking sow farms is easy to do compared to benchmarking nursery, finishing and wean to finish closeouts. There are 20+ sow record programs available, they may calculate some numbers differently, but they all collect the same data for each sow: matings, farrowings, weanings, piglet deaths, etc. That is not true for growing pigs. There are multiple computer programs plus thousands of different spreadsheets. The problem is not all producers collect and record the same data. Here are some numbers we feel are important data to collect: read more
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