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Prairie Swine Centre is an affiliate of the University of Saskatchewan
Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.
Financial support for the Enterprise Model Project and Pork Insight has been provided by:
FACTORS INFLUENCING ILLINOIS FARMLAND VALUES
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Profitability, Costs & Benchmarks
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Latta Harris Hanon & Penningroth L.L.P. (LHHP) has been around since the early 1950’s with approximately 50 full-time equivalent personnel and 50% of their business is agricultural clients. LHHP works with producers and sells over 4,000,000 market hogs per year. With approximately 250 swine producing clients. LHHP provides value-added services emphasized for pork producers. Key factors regarding pork producers profit potential is the herd health, because the highest cost producers have poor herd health. Feed efficiency and feed cost also contribute to producer’s profits. Each 5% increase in feed cost/lb of feed = $1.14/cwt. Feed only for need, do not overfeed. Design and adhere to efficient feed budgets. Also purchase feed in a competitive fashion. Producers could also sell at a heavier weights and sell some wean pigs from time-to-time. This should cause a 5% improvement in capacity utilization. Increased sow herd productivity should also increase profit. The producer’s priorities should be getting the right people on the bus, and the wrong ones off. If you are the owner ask yourself if you are the right person? After obtaining the right people, focus on training and development. Also get on top of herd health issues fast; stay on top because all producers have recurring health challenges. Low-cost producers recover much faster. The keys are the quality of vet, personnel and a system that allows adaptations of pig flows. The producer must also use proven bio-security methods. In order to reduce feed costs to the 90th percentile or better you must own your own mill; do a KSU-type analysis; get your key ingredients directly; improve sow herd productivity; have your farm evaluated by two top-flight consulting DVMs, at least once a year. Evaluate genetic performance, sourcing, be willing to change; and overall, get efficient before getting bigger
Covering New Ground: Manitoba Agricultural Sustainability Initiative – 1998-2005 Activity Directory
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Covering New Ground is a provincially funded program to address agricultural
sustainability in Manitoba. The Covering New Ground (CNG) program began in
1998 and has an annual budget of approximately $1.2 million. The primary goal
of the program is to promote awareness and uptake of agricultural practices that
promote economic diversification and competitiveness while improving the longterm
sustainability of the natural resources in agro-Manitoba. Covering New
Ground accomplishes this mandate by partnering with local producer groups,
non-government agencies and provincial commodity organizations to deliver
applied research, demonstration and technology transfer projects.
The Covering New Ground 1998-2005 Activity Directory was developed to
provide a listing of the projects and activities which have been funded during the
past 5 years. The directory is organized by the three main priority areas of CNG:
• Integrated Pest Management,
• Sustainable Crop Management, and
• Sustainable Forage and Livestock Management.
Each section is further divided by year and region. CNG program priorities and
goals are structured to reflect the unique characteristics and challenges of each
agricultural region and agricultural sector in Manitoba according to regions with their geographic boundaries.
Measuring Performance and Maximizing Throughput In the Finish Phase
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Techniques of the Hanor Company are discussed in regard to monitoring key production indicators of the finisher barn. Information keeping is important in 6 key areas: 1) Daily/Weekly Reporting (death loss, inventory, etc.); 2) Close-out reporting (growth, death loss, feed conversion, etc.); 3) Top Hog Marketed Index; 4) Market Result Report; 5) Feed; 6) Finances.
China – Pork Powerhouse of the World
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In recent years, live pig and pork production and pork consumption have been undergoing dramatic changes in China. As the biggest pig and pork producing country in the world, all these changes will not only influence the pig and pork industry in China, but will also affect international feed and pork trading countries. An overview of the current status and challenges faced by China will help the world understand the past, present and future trends in the Chinese pig industry. This information may also enable countries and companies to adjust pork production policies to suit the future international market economy in pork. China has an abundance of labour but is running out of land and resources. There is a lower pork price but high cost for major agriculture products. As a pork powerhouse, China will influence all aspects of the world pig industry such as labour, feed ingredient trading, food processing, pork trading, live pig trading, equipment and technology transfer. More strict measures are required to limit small-scale operations to improve meat safety and international competition. China can be expected to continue its role as a pork powerhouse of the world. The present pattern of increases in productivity, lean yield and carcass weight will continue. Rather than becoming a new export market for existing pork producing countries, China will probably become a major international competitor in the pork export market.
GO TO THE MASTERS WITH GROW-FINISH F:G AND ADG
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Factors that Affect GF Performance are health, genetics, nutrition (energy, dietary lysine level), feeder pig weight, barn design and gender. Economic summary assumes the following: total grow-finish cost = $55 / pig; facility cost = $0.10 / pig / day; feed cost = $120 / ton (unless given); deathloss cost = $75 / pig; and additional live weight = $45 / cwt.
Affectation 1 (g) – Conseils, commissions et législation
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Le Centre de compétence sur les conseils, les commissions et la législation appuie les organismes suivants :
• le Conseil manitobain de commercialisation des produits agricoles,
• la Commission manitobaine des machines agricoles,
• la Commission de protection des pratiques agricoles du Manitoba,
• l’Office de la propriété agricole du Manitoba,
• la Commission manitobaine du contrôle du prix du lait,
• le Bureau d’accréditation des organismes de producteurs agricoles,
• la Commission de médiation agricole du Manitoba,
• la Commission hippique du Manitoba.
Le Centre de compétence sur les conseils, les commissions et la législation examine et modifie la législation actuelle et présente de nouveaux projets de lois et de règlements. En outre, le Centre de compétence aide les producteurs et leur permet d’accroître leurs revenus :
en fournissant des services de médiation,
en fixant les prix des produits,
en fournissant un mécanisme de financement des activités de recherche et de promotion,
en réglementant la production et la commercialisation de certaines matières premières agricoles.
Le Centre de compétence s’efforce d’appuyer les producteurs en ce qui a trait à la gestion et à la mise en oeuvre de pratiques agricoles acceptables ainsi qu’à l’adoption de normes de sécurité à la ferme dans certains régimes de commercialisation.