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Managing Variation at Slaughter by using a 'Profit Box' 23 Aug 2010
“ Some variation is largely unavoidable - but manageable!” (Dr. John Patience, 2008).
This last year I seem to have visited more farms than usual where this problem was raised. The problem of variation in shipping weights resulted in under-occupied pens holding up the re-occupation of the finishing building with new pigs. I’m sure you have noticed it, but housing costs as a percentage of real-term total costs (outside inflation) of raising a finishing pig have nearly doubled in the past 20 years, especially for new-builds. Empty pens waste capital resources.
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