Production management that delivers results

1. Production management thatdeliversresults Rafael Kummer, Phd. Master Company - Brazil

2. Brazilian Top 10 players

3. Master Agropecuária – Overview • Founded: April, 29th 1994 (FamilyCompany) • Business: productionofpigs for reproductionandslaughter in partnership • Companystructure • 21.000 sows (6 farms) • 2 boar studs (150 boars) • 2 feedmills • 190 partners • 270 employees • Target for 2011: 600.000 weanpigs (28,4 P/S/Y)

4. Business point of view - BTW

5. Managing BTW Throughput Productivity Cost

6. Managing BTW – looking at sow lifetime Throughput Productivity Cost

7. Managing BTW – looking at sow lifetime Throughput Productivity Cost

8. Cost of production

9. Cost of production

10. Sow depreciation ((Value per gilt bred – Value per sow culled) + added cost) / Wean pigs per sow culled

11. Managing BTW – looking at sow lifetime Throughput Productivity Cost

12. Productivity – PSY (system monthlyaverage)

13. Born alive vs. parity (49.305 farrows)

14. Today distribution per parity 38% 42% 20%

15. Objective (improve 0,3 to 0,4 PSY) 38% >50% <10%

16. Managing BTW – looking at sow lifetime Throughput Productivity Cost

17. Throughput Number of pigs weaned per week

18. Throughput

19. Performance according to parity OP 1 OP 5 8 - 24 h Adotados de OP 5 Biológicos de OP 1 1,2 - 1,6 kg Adotados de OP 1 Biológicos de OP 5 Bierhals et al. Nonpublished data

20. Performance according parity Bierhals et al. Nonpublished data

21. Throughput Source: C. Moore, 2005 – London Swine Conference

22. Parity retention importance • Decrease cost of production • Increase productivity • Increase throughput • Improve pig quality at weaning

23. What do we want as a system • > 50% of sows from P3 to P5. • Reduce replacement rate to 43-47%. • We need to improve voluntary culling vs. involuntary.

24. How do we manage • Looking at retention per parity. • Select to breed > 90% • Breed to P1 > 95% • P1 to P2 > 90% • P2 to P3 > 90% 2. Looking at voluntary vs. involuntary culling. Voluntary: productivity or age Involuntary: all other reasons

25. What are big challenges Birth – Selection – Breed – P1 – Breed – P2 – Breed – P3 >70%

26. What are the key points we believe • Have the right boars on boar stud; • Have the right number of gilts available to select; • Have a specialist doing selection; • Do a good job on puberty stimulation; • Breed gilts by weight; • Feed based on body condition score - avoid fat animals; • Watch for food and water during first lactation; • Have 1 person responsible for culling; • Make groups in gestation of problem animals every 2 weeks;

27. Project: improving performance selecting the right pure line animals. • Farm Master VII: • 5.500 animals. • 2.500 L02 females. • Internal nursery and grower – no animals entering the unit from outside. • Genetic improvement through boars

28. Project: improving performance selecting the right pure line animals. • When we should start selecting the replacement gilt? • Should we not tag low birth weight animals? • Does parity of the mother sow impact subsequent performance? • Can we manipulate diet during growth to improve sow longevity?

29. Project: improving performance selecting the right pure line animals. • Project A: • Start: December, 2009. • Identified 1525 L02 gilts at birth – EBV, boar/sow, sow parity, litter information. • Individual weight at birth, weaning, end of nursery and selection 155 d. • Record information off test – culling/death. • Objective: to follow these animals up to parity 3.

30. Project: improving performance selecting the right pure line animals.

31. Project: improving performance selecting the right pure line animals.

32. Project: improving performance selecting the right pure line animals. 22 d weight (n=1379) 75 d weight (n=1198) 155 d weight (n=940)

33. Project: improving performance selecting the right pure line animals. Age at puberty (n=504) Age at boar exposure (n=569)

34. Project: improving performance selecting the right pure line animals.

35. Project 1 – preliminary results • There is a lower chance that a low birth weight L02 will reach selection; • No impact on selection rate; • There is NO correlation between birth weight and puberty age and birth weight and anestrous rate; • Evaluating subsequent performance and retention up to P3.

36. Conclusions • Everything we do is to get closer to genetic potential! L02 total born according to Estimated Breeding Value at breeding – Master 7 (2010)

37. Take home messages • There is no improvement without EBV management; • Parity retention is key for cost, productivity and throughput; • Sow replacement rate > 50% is not the future; • Manage looking at retention by parity and voluntary vs. involuntary culling reason; • Make the things easy in a routine base or will not get fully implemented.