Pig farm profitability : leverage possibilities

The high heterogeneity between pig farm production costs constitutes the main target margin for improving profitability, and underlines the utility of analysing any technically and economically profitable system that is reproducible.Production cost breakdowns and the root causes of differences between the most and least profitable pig farms need to be analysed before technical, economic, financial and structural levers can be identified. Pig farmers themselves,through their decision-making and their technical and management skills, impact strongly on the successful implementationof tried-and-tested improvement plans. Other actions will depend upon group initiatives.