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Explore sustainable practices and profitability strategies in pork production. Focus on manure disposal, odour reduction, animal welfare, marketing, and cost efficiency. Discover how skilled staff, breeding stock, and scale affect profitability. Uncover constraints, opportunities, and priorities for success.
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CRC Perspectives on constraints, opportunities and priorities Colin Kay Pork Producer, Director NZPIB November 2005
Key issues • Sustainability • Profitability
Sustainability • Manure disposal – treat as a resource • Odour reduction • Country health status • Animal welfare – group housing • Marketing/promotion • Pork quality – boar taint • Pork industry image • Unfair trading - dumping • Obtain, train, retain good staff
Profitability • Operating profit (EBIT) EBIT = Gross income – variable costs – fixed costs • Cost of production All research should result in increase in profit or reduction in COP
COP relationships • Price of feed vs. FCR -Use low value by-product – lower feed costs but higher FCR -Lower costs but reduce kg sold COP Feed = cost/kg feed x FCR
COP relationships Skilled Staff • Mating area - ↑ total pigs born & ↑ No. litters • Farrowing area -↓still born & pre-weaning mortality • Will increase no pigs weaned/sow/yr • Daily feeder adjustment - ↑ intake, ↑ growth rate & ↓wastage - Aim to ↓ FCR
COP relationships Breeding stock • Improved carcass traits - killing out %, backfat and lean yield • Increase total pigs born/litter • ADFI + ADG + FCR
Effect of scale of production • Compare two herd sizes • 250 sow herd • 500 sow herd • Marketing 22.17 pigs/sow/year • Carcass deadweight 67kg average
COP Double sow herd to 500 • Double variable costs 84% → 92% • Fixed costs same 16% → 8% • COP $2.77 → $2.48 • Increase pigs sold/sow/yr 22.17 → 24 • Increase carcass wgt 67kg → 72kg • COP $2.48 → $2.40
Profit ($/kg – ((cost/kg feed x FRC) + variable costs/kg+ fixed costs/kg))) x volume kg
Constraints • Scale • Environmental • Cost of cereal grains • Labour
Opportunities • ↑ Utilisation of feed - ↑ intake ↓ wastage • ↑ Digestibility of feed ingredients • By product feeds • ↓ Reproductive wastage • Group housing management • Outdoor production • ↑ Carcass weights • Staff training and recruitment
Priorities • ↓ Feed costs/kg carcass (COP Feed = cost/kg feed x FCR) • ↑ Digestibility + utilisation of feed • ↑ Reproductive productivity • Meat quality-boar taint-tenderness • Technology transfer • Staff training and recruitment • Outdoor production systems