Author: Lee Chafer
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The Feed Silo Fix That Took Six Years to Notice
A 2013 consulting story from a Russian pig farm: a feed-flow problem hiding in plain sight for six years, and the lesson about managing by numbers versus managing by walking the barns.
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Inside China’s Six-Storey Pig Farms: What Muyuan’s 55,000-Pig Facility Means for Asian Pig Producers
Last week, while attending the World Pork Conference in China, I visited Muyuan Foods’ multi-storey farm at Jimo. And when I say multi-storey, I mean it literally. Built in 2020/21 for around £17 million, the 30-metre-high building contains six floors of pigs. The top two floors house around 4,000 sows, with nursery and finishing pigs…
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How to Improve PSY in Asian Pig Farms: A Practical Guide
Pigs weaned per sow per year (PSY) is the single most important metric in swine production. It determines your cost of production, your profitability, and ultimately the long-term viability of your operation. Yet across Asian pig farms, from Vietnam to China to Thailand, PSY consistently underperforms global benchmarks. The good news: the gap is closeable,…