A plea for ‘saleable Meat per Tonne of Feed’

‘Feed conversion ratio’ or ‘FCR’ appears to be the holy grail for the entire swine business – something pig management columnist John Gadd is not convinced of. Why not look at other parameters, he wonders? Think of MTF for a change. I do get so frustrated by the casual use of FCR in the textbooks. In most cases, at its use at all! FCR is out of date and can be misleading. We have been used to seeing it as a useful benchmark for decades and it has become over-familiar. There is now a b