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MANAGEMENT PIH-100 pork industry Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service • West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Performance Guidelines for the Swine Operation Authors: Vernon B. Mayrose, Purdue University Kenneth Foster, Purdue University George W. Libal, South Dakota State University Kenneth L. Esbenshade, North Carolina State University Reviewers: Jerome O. Geiger, Franklin, Kentucky Virgil W. Hays, University of Kentucky Stephen Molding, Glenvil, Nebraska Emmett J. Stevermer, Iowa State University The success of a swine enterprise is measured in terms of profits. Profits are determined by how well an operation is managed from both financial and production management aspects. Tax and other financial records are a source of information which you can employ to determine profitability. The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide production guidelines or standards (Table 1) with which to compare the animal performance results you are getting on your farm. This comparison will provide a production profile and will enable you to identify where production management can be improved. The production profile can be used to: • Provide an early warning of developing problems • Provide clues to basic weaknesses in your program • Monitor herd health • Provide information for budgeting or feasibility studies • Provide a basis for incentive payments to labor • Identify major costs • Permit a comparison with other producers • Provide a basis for seasonal adjustments in management • Evaluate the compatibility of different production and marketing arrangements with your farm. Records Records must be available to establish the production profile. Select those items in Table 1 that you think are important production criteria, ones for which you are willing to spend the time and effort necessary to collect the data. Collecting and not using data is a waste of your time. Discipline yourself to be selective and honest with your record keeping, data evaluation, and management decisions. Visit with a swine specialist about where to obtain computer programs and services for organizing and summarizing records. Determining Your Swine Production Profile* Table 1 lists measures of performance for establishing a production profile. Presented for each measure are: (1) three levels of performance, excellent, good, and poor, (2) attainable goals, and (3) a space to record the results being achieved on your farm. The following text provides a brief discussion of each performance standard, what it measures, and how it is calculated. Some items listed in Table 1 are measures of overall performance, such as hogs raised per female per year, and are broad indicators of management. Such comprehensive measures have the weakness of failing to pinpoint a problem if it is the only record kept. You may decide that records on more specific measures, such as live pigs farrowed per litter, are also required in your operation for production management decision making. Your swine performance profile should be continued over the years to allow a study of trends and emerging problems. 1, 2. (See Table 1.) Weaned sows cycling within 7 days and weaning to first service interval. For pork producers using intensive farrowing schedules, it is important that sows cycle and are bred within a week after weaning in order to stay on schedule and ensure a full-farrowing unit. Failure of sows to cycle in this time period can be an indication of a management * Some definitions and formulas were adapted from “Generally Accepted Terms and Formulas for the Pork Industry,” available from National Pork Producers Council, P.O. Box 10383, Des Moines, Iowa 50306. Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, State of Indiana, Purdue University and U. S. Department of Agriculture cooperating. H. A. Wadsworth, Director, West Lafayette, IN. Issued in furtherance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914. It is the policy of the Cooperative Extension Service of Purdue University that all persons shall have equal opportunity and access to its programs and facilities without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or handicap.
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Purdue Identification Number | UA14-13-mimeoPIH100r |
Title | Extension Pork Industry Handbook, no. 100 (1991) |
Title of Issue | Performance guidelines for the swine operation |
Date of Original | 1991 |
Genre | Periodical |
Collection Title | Extension Pork Industry Handbook (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
Coverage | United States – Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Date Digitized | 11/02/2016 |
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Title | Page 001 |
Genre | Periodical |
Collection Title | Extension Pork Industry Handbook (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
Coverage | United States – Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Transcript | MANAGEMENT PIH-100 pork industry Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service • West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Performance Guidelines for the Swine Operation Authors: Vernon B. Mayrose, Purdue University Kenneth Foster, Purdue University George W. Libal, South Dakota State University Kenneth L. Esbenshade, North Carolina State University Reviewers: Jerome O. Geiger, Franklin, Kentucky Virgil W. Hays, University of Kentucky Stephen Molding, Glenvil, Nebraska Emmett J. Stevermer, Iowa State University The success of a swine enterprise is measured in terms of profits. Profits are determined by how well an operation is managed from both financial and production management aspects. Tax and other financial records are a source of information which you can employ to determine profitability. The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide production guidelines or standards (Table 1) with which to compare the animal performance results you are getting on your farm. This comparison will provide a production profile and will enable you to identify where production management can be improved. The production profile can be used to: • Provide an early warning of developing problems • Provide clues to basic weaknesses in your program • Monitor herd health • Provide information for budgeting or feasibility studies • Provide a basis for incentive payments to labor • Identify major costs • Permit a comparison with other producers • Provide a basis for seasonal adjustments in management • Evaluate the compatibility of different production and marketing arrangements with your farm. Records Records must be available to establish the production profile. Select those items in Table 1 that you think are important production criteria, ones for which you are willing to spend the time and effort necessary to collect the data. Collecting and not using data is a waste of your time. Discipline yourself to be selective and honest with your record keeping, data evaluation, and management decisions. Visit with a swine specialist about where to obtain computer programs and services for organizing and summarizing records. Determining Your Swine Production Profile* Table 1 lists measures of performance for establishing a production profile. Presented for each measure are: (1) three levels of performance, excellent, good, and poor, (2) attainable goals, and (3) a space to record the results being achieved on your farm. The following text provides a brief discussion of each performance standard, what it measures, and how it is calculated. Some items listed in Table 1 are measures of overall performance, such as hogs raised per female per year, and are broad indicators of management. Such comprehensive measures have the weakness of failing to pinpoint a problem if it is the only record kept. You may decide that records on more specific measures, such as live pigs farrowed per litter, are also required in your operation for production management decision making. Your swine performance profile should be continued over the years to allow a study of trends and emerging problems. 1, 2. (See Table 1.) Weaned sows cycling within 7 days and weaning to first service interval. For pork producers using intensive farrowing schedules, it is important that sows cycle and are bred within a week after weaning in order to stay on schedule and ensure a full-farrowing unit. Failure of sows to cycle in this time period can be an indication of a management * Some definitions and formulas were adapted from “Generally Accepted Terms and Formulas for the Pork Industry,” available from National Pork Producers Council, P.O. Box 10383, Des Moines, Iowa 50306. Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, State of Indiana, Purdue University and U. S. Department of Agriculture cooperating. H. A. Wadsworth, Director, West Lafayette, IN. Issued in furtherance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914. It is the policy of the Cooperative Extension Service of Purdue University that all persons shall have equal opportunity and access to its programs and facilities without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or handicap. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
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