{"id":19337,"date":"2017-05-12T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T17:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19337"},"modified":"2017-05-12T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T17:23:21","slug":"benchmarking-2013-nursery-finishing-and-wean-to-finish-closeout-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/benchmarking-2013-nursery-finishing-and-wean-to-finish-closeout-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"BENCHMARKING 2013 NURSERY, FINISHING, AND WEAN-TO- FINISH CLOSEOUT PERFORMANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 127\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Reporting results from analysis of the MetaFarms\u2019 Finishing Manager database that show averages for nursery, finishing and wean-to-finish closeouts. For 2013, the dataset included over 17,000 anonymous and confidential closeouts, all based on a standardized set of business logic and calculation algorithms, which allows our analysts and users to make apples-to-apples comparisons of performance across and within companies using this software.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 138\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>There is a performance penalty associated with the 10-11 lb. Average Start Weight category but relatively less than in nursery groups. Groups with lower start weights tend to stay on-feed longer, have more sub-standard (lightweight) pig sales and fewer market hog sales as a % of all sales, lower feed cost\/lb gain, and higher medication costs per pig.<\/p>\n<p>There are definite effects of Days-on-Feed on wean-to-finish performance, and you can read the data as saying longer days-on-feed are a consequence of the associated biological performance. Groups with more days-on-feed have higher mortality, much lower average daily gain, higher (worse) feed conversion, and lower feed intake (ADFI). It\u2019s counter-intuitive but groups with higher days-on-feed also have lower feed medication costs. It appears that in wean-to-finish groups, producers have more ability to use time to their advantage, i.e. allow slower-growing groups to remain on-feed until the group reaches a realistic target market weight. In contrast to finishing groups, the Average Start Weight in wean-to-finish groups is not the biggest driver of DOF. Instead, it\u2019s more about lower feed intake and lower ADG.<\/p>\n<p>Wean-to-finish groups with higher mortality levels have much lower out weights even though they are on-feed much longer (more Average Days-on-Feed). They sell a higher percent of sales as sub- standard (lightweight) pigs and a much lower percent as market hogs. They have the \u2018high- mortality\u2019 cluster of biological effects: lower average daily gain, higher (worse) feed conversion, lower feed intake, higher feed cost\/lb gain, and higher medication costs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting results from analysis of the MetaFarms\u2019 Finishing Manager database that show averages for nursery, finishing and wean-to-finish closeouts. For 2013, the dataset included over 17,000 anonymous and confidential closeouts, all based on a standardized set of business logic and calculation algorithms, which allows our analysts and users to make apples-to-apples comparisons of performance across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-pork-insight-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19337","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=19337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19338,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19337\/revisions\/19338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}