Environmental Management System in the Pork Industry

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CRC Perspectives on constraints, opportunities
and priorities Colin Kay Pork Producer,
Director NZPIB November 2005
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Key issues

• Sustainability
• Profitability

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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

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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

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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

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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

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COP relationships

• Breeding stock
• Improved carcass traits - killing out , backfat
  and lean yield
• Increase total pigs born/litter
• ADFI ADG FCR

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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

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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

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Profit

• (/kg ((cost/kg feed x FRC) variable
  costs/kg fixed costs/kg))) x volume kg

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Constraints

• Scale
• Environmental
• Cost of cereal grains
• Labour

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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

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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