Danish finisher pigs on liquid feed in the trial. - Photo: Dr Katarina Nielsen Dominiak
Improving pig performance requires proper management and proactive response. Online decision support can help with that, as can support based on data from the pigs currently in the barn. For many producers of finisher pigs, the traditional way to evaluate productivity is to compare historic data of carcass weight for a batch of pigs with an average amount of feed fed to those pigs during their growth period. Those data are then benchmarked with similar data from the previous batches of pigs, or
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