Page 2 of articles about productivity

Where would you begin to develop new and valuable information about your farm’s profitability (or lack thereof) that you are not monitoring now? Certainly, one of the most important ones is to visualize your data in a new way.

This system uses a small air stream at the sow's nose to improve her thermal comfort.

Which management factors can affect the feed conversion ratio? Enric Marco covers how all-in all-out, density, trough space, and filling and emptying of barns can lose us money.

From their respective academic and on-farm perspectives, Josep Gasa and Josep Casanovas comment on a recent study regarding the effect of heat stress on sows: Which weeks does it affect the farrowing rate the most? What about the weaning-to-first-service interval? Are there differences depending on parity?

It is not only related to NPDs, but it can also have a greater impact than we first thought.

When productivity decreases, but productive efficiency is maintained...

How do we get good workers? What must we do to keep them? And, mostly, what do I want on my farm and which workers do I need for that?

Thanks to the combination of a decrease in the number of stillborn and an almost 30% decrease of preweaning mortality (down to 10.2%), the ultimate goal is finally achieved: to wean an additional piglet per sow.