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What is the Potential for Improvement?

2013-08-05 00:22:00| National Hog Farmer

By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, NE The new Swine Management Services (SMS) benchmarking program introduced at World Pork Expo incorporates the knowledge we have gained over the past four years in writing these articles. Weve added a new parity benchmarking report with charts. One of the concepts in the SMS Farm Benchmarking program is Potential for Improvement and is calculated for each farm. The new SMS Farm Benchmarking program uses 36 pigs weaned / mated female / year to calculate each farm's Potential for Improvement. This article will show how we came up with that number. read more

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