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Table 1. Database Benchmarking and Ranking* |
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13-Week Benchmarking Data |
52-Week Benchmarking Data |
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Key Performance Indicators |
Top 10% |
Top 25% |
All Farms |
Bottom 25% |
Top 10% |
Top 25% |
All Farms |
Bottom 25% |
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Number of farms |
31 |
78 |
314 |
77 |
34 |
85 |
343 |
84 |
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Mated females |
36,591 |
128,992 |
529,620 |
87,526 |
27,150 |
114,287 |
584,352 |
107,634 |
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Pigs weaned/mated female/year |
27.09 |
25.69 |
22.67 |
17.88 |
26.95 |
25.41 |
22.37 |
18.71 |
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Wean to 1st service interval, days |
5.96 |
6.44 |
7.21 |
8.78 |
5.81 |
6.41 |
6.92 |
8.22 |
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Farrowing rate, % |
88.1 |
86.1 |
82.0 |
74.4 |
88.6 |
86.0 |
82.4 |
75.8 |
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Total pigs born/female farrowed |
13.05 |
12.84 |
12.17 |
11.64 |
13.13 |
12.70 |
12.11 |
11.74 |
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Pigs born live/female farrowed |
11.96 |
11.74 |
11.04 |
10.39 |
12.04 |
11.62 |
10.98 |
10.52 |
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Pigs weaned/female farrowed |
10.75 |
10.45 |
9.63 |
8.75 |
10.76 |
10.34 |
9.53 |
8.89 |
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Piglet survival, % |
84.63 |
82.71 |
80.22 |
74.82 |
84.39 |
83.35 |
79.85 |
75.38 |
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Average age at weaning, days |
19.81 |
18.77 |
18.71 |
19.06 |
19.25 |
18.61 |
18.73 |
18.43 |
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Average parity |
2.24 |
1.86 |
2.09 |
2.02 |
2.55 |
2.23 |
2.19 |
1.85 |
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Avg. parity of farrowed sows |
3.30 |
3.24 |
3.25 |
3.02 |
3.42 |
3.18 |
3.28 |
2.87 |
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Avg. parity of culled sows |
3.38 |
2.86 |
3.20 |
3.14 |
3.27 |
2.90 |
2.92 |
2.94 |
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Death rate of mated females, % |
5.1 |
6.5 |
8.8 |
9.4 |
6.1 |
6.8 |
9.1 |
10.6 |
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*Source: Swine Management Services, LLC |
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About the Benchmarking Database
Swine Management Services (SMS), LLC, Fremont, NE, is an
independent, privately owned company offering information solutions to the
swine industry. Co-owned by Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, the SMS database reflects
information collected on over 600,000 sows from nearly 350 data-sharing farms
in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
Rix
and Ketchem, with over 60 years of combined experience in the swine industry,
provide independent and objective production analysis through their Swine Smart
Production Analysis software, which extracts key production information from
swine records and creates production reports based on the firm's key
performance indicators (KPI's). These reports highlight areas of good
production as well as areas that need improving.
Rix
served on the committee responsible for developing the National Pork Producers
Council (NPPC) Production and Financial Standards, which SMS has adopted to
ensure continuity in all its reports. SMS was an early adopter of Continuous
Quality Improvement (CQI) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts in the
swine industry. Examples of SMS reports, presented in an easy-to-read,
graphical format, are posted on their secure web site: www.swinems.com.
For
additional information, contact Swine Management Services, LLC, 1044 W. 23rd
St., Suite B, Fremont NE 68025; (402) 727-6600; fax: (402) 727-7270; or e-mail:
mark.rix@swinems.com;
ron.ketchem@swinems.com.