{"id":15190,"date":"2013-09-25T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=15190"},"modified":"2014-05-26T13:43:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:43:26","slug":"development-of-a-spreadsheet-based-financial-model-for-pig-producers-considering-high-welfare-farrowing-systems-sandra-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/development-of-a-spreadsheet-based-financial-model-for-pig-producers-considering-high-welfare-farrowing-systems-sandra-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of a spreadsheet based financial model for pig producers considering high welfare farrowing systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The model was developed to\u00a0address the recognized deficiency in financial information on free-farrowing systems, and\u00a0assist pig producers in estimating the cost of producing pigs in such systems. \u00a0The model is\u00a0available on line at \u00a0<a href=\" http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/afrd\/research\/project\/4378\">http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/afrd\/research\/project\/4378<\/a>. \u00a0 Users can select from\u00a0eight \u00a0different types of farrowing accommodation and four gestation housing systems,\u00a0with additional variations on floor type and feeding system. \u00a0Input data on herd size and\u00a0productivity are entered into one active sheet and, using built-in data on housing and\u00a0other input costs, the model computes the cost of producing a weaner pig 8kg at 4 weeks\u00a0of age) in each gestation\/farrowing system combination selected. \u00a0Sensitivities to input or\u00a0output changes can also be evaluated by altering herd performance. \u00a0The use of this model\u00a0provides pig producers, policy makers and other stakeholders with a means to estimate \u00a0the likely cost of pig production prior to any investment in a new housing system.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Sandra Edwards<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The model was developed to\u00a0address the recognized deficiency in financial information on free-farrowing systems, and\u00a0assist pig producers in estimating the cost of producing pigs in such systems. \u00a0The model is\u00a0available on line at \u00a0http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/afrd\/research\/project\/4378. \u00a0 Users can select from\u00a0eight \u00a0different types of farrowing accommodation and four gestation housing systems,\u00a0with additional variations on floor type and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,928],"tags":[26096,103,46,108,14,26341,26222,27151,27281],"class_list":["post-15190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-welfare","tag-edwards","tag-farrowing","tag-feed","tag-feeding","tag-pig","tag-sandra-edw","tag-sandra-edwards","tag-swine-economic-spreadsheets","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16105,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions\/16105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}