{"id":19752,"date":"2017-07-10T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19752"},"modified":"2017-07-10T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:24:01","slug":"another-look-at-the-nursery-financial-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/another-look-at-the-nursery-financial-considerations\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Look at the Nursery: Financial Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farms differ in many ways, but the author suspects that the goals of the nursery are common throughout\u00a0all commercial units and discusses how best to improve upon each goal:<br \/>\n\u2022 Maximize nursery exist weights, as a solid platform for the move to the grow out barn<br \/>\n\u2022 Minimize mortality<br \/>\n\u2022 Minimize the need for medical treatment<br \/>\n\u2022 Minimize feed costs, calculated as feed cost per kg gain and feed cost per pig<br \/>\n\u2022 Maximize uniformity<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, financial value can be assigned to a feeder pig leaving a nursery, even if it is not\u00a0sold. A model of economic value for the feeder pig, within the context of the full production\u00a0system, would be highly beneficial, because profits can clearly be made or lost within the\u00a0nursery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Another-Look-at-the-Nursery-financial-considerations.pdf\">Another Look at the Nursery- financial considerations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farms differ in many ways, but the author suspects that the goals of the nursery are common throughout\u00a0all commercial units and discusses how best to improve upon each goal: \u2022 Maximize nursery exist weights, as a solid platform for the move to the grow out barn \u2022 Minimize mortality \u2022 Minimize the need for medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16108,19,931,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-nutrition-pork-insight-articles","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19752","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=19752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19754,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19752\/revisions\/19754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}