Tag Archives: optimize
May 31, 2019
Foreign animal diseases to look out for besides ASF
Provided by National Hog Farmer | Written by: Attila Farkas, DVM | May 2019 African swine fever is getting a lot of coverage in the media as outbreaks continue to occur across Asia and the European Union, while other foreign animal diseases are getting less “publicity” even though the introduction of these infectious agents would have similar economic effects and cripple the U.S. pork industry and exports. In modern day swine production, free trade agreements, free trade blocks, regionalization, increased international passenger travel and
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How to optimize cost of feed per pound of gain?
Provided by National Hog Farmer | Written by: Will Fombelle, DVM | April 2019 Oftentimes while summarizing a wean-to-finish closeout report, most producers will center their attention around metrics such as percent Grade A pigs, average daily gain and feed conversion rate. These metrics are very important to a producer’s bottom line; however a finishing production metric that does not get much publicity or attention is the “cost of feed per pound of gain.” When we compare “feed conversion rate” and “cost of feed
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