{"id":19315,"date":"2017-05-11T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19315"},"modified":"2017-05-11T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:35:09","slug":"production-and-financial-performance-of-high-producing-sow-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/production-and-financial-performance-of-high-producing-sow-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"PRODUCTION AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF HIGH PRODUCING SOW FARMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sow productivity and sow farm performance are the foundations of modern, integrated\u00a0pork production. Most pork producers consider the production of weaned pigs to be a cost\u00a0centre and rely on the growth phases (nursery-finishing or wean-to-finish) to fully realize\u00a0the value of high-quality weaned pigs. Above-average sow productivity results in a lower\u00a0average cost per weaned pig. Benchmark analysis of the largest pork producers in North\u00a0America consistently shows that weaned pig cost ranks as one of the most important\u00a0factors in overall profitability of pork production systems. Lower weaned pig cost\u00a0correlates strongly with higher profitability. The Top 25% ranked on overall company\u00a0profitability had consistently lower weaned pig costs.\u00a0Keep in mind that weaned pig cost can change dramatically, and has in the past 3-4 years,\u00a0mainly due to big changes in feed cost. Nevertheless, at any given time, it is sow\u00a0productivity that drives variation in weaned pig cost structure across sow farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sow productivity and sow farm performance are the foundations of modern, integrated\u00a0pork production. Most pork producers consider the production of weaned pigs to be a cost\u00a0centre and rely on the growth phases (nursery-finishing or wean-to-finish) to fully realize\u00a0the value of high-quality weaned pigs. Above-average sow productivity results in a lower\u00a0average cost per weaned pig. Benchmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315","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=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19316,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions\/19316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}