Previous work have shown that even though the ultimate goal of
a swine production operation is to raise hogs in the best possible
manner, there is a wide variation in the different operational
systems in place in swine facilities across the industry, leading
to variability in performance, efficiencies, production costs,
and overall productivity. The overall goal of the project was to
evaluate the current performance of various operational systems
in swine production to determine whether standardization and
optimization can improve efficiencies and overall productivity.
From the work conducted in this project, 14 key areas of swine
barn design and management were identified by pork producers
and other stakeholders as areas that could potentially benefit from
standardization and optimization efforts.