Alan Evers

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• Alan Evers

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Maximizing Profitability Through Contracting

• Creating a Strategy to Increase Consistency in
  Contract Production by Using SOPs

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Presentation Overview

• What is an SOP?
• What are the benefits?
• How can it improve profitability?
• How do you write a usable one and incorporate it?

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SOP

• What is a standard operating procedure?
• Guide to consistency
• Getting everyone on the same page
• WRITTEN guidance - Another TOOL

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Developing Consistency

• Closing the gap from the top grower to the bottom
  grower.
• Are all of your contract growers using the same
  management techniques and getting the same
  results????
• Same genetics, same production program, similar
  facility, and similar management should result in
  like results.

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Getting everyone on the same page

• Do your growers and service personnel have a
  written blueprint?
• Are they using and following the blueprint?
• Is your verbal blueprint the same as the
  written blueprint?

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SOP Benefits to the Grower

• Lets you know what is expected
• 2)Gives you a how to blueprint
  to follow
• 3)Reduces labor by having healthier pigs
• 4)Everyone else is doing it this way
• 5)Takes the pressure off of you when
  things dont go well because you were
  following the guidelines
• 6)Improves your bottom line.
• 7)More Pork Out The Door!

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Lets you know what is expected

• Targets DL, Culls, FC
• How to set up barns- prefill checklists
• How to set up ventilation
• Daily Routines

• Records
• Feeder Adjustments
• Spot Treatments
• Biosecurity
• Follow withdrawals
• Handling fallbacks

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• Lets you focus on and identify your challenges
• What is your Opportunity to Improve?
• Tool to improving these areas
• Focus, Focus, Focus

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• Gives you a How To Blueprint
• Takes the variable out Reduces Guessing
• Lets you use Best Proven Techniques and
  Procedures
• Lets you maximize your Production and Profit

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• Reduces Labor by having Healthier Pigs
• Reduce or eliminate environmental stresses caused
  by Ventilation and Ammonia Challenges
• Reduces impact of PRRS and SIV and Secondary
  Infections stimulated by environmental challenges
• Less Health Challenges Less spot treatments and
  reduced mortalities
• Putting pigs in position to reach Maximum Genetic
  Potential
• More Pork Out the Door!

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Everyone is doing it this way

• With these procedures Top Results
• You are putting yourself in a position to meet
  the set goals
• Maximizes your profit

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Takes Pressure Off of You

• Shows the procedures you are following
• Lets service personnel focus on the true health
  challenge
• Quicker Recovery Time

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Increases Profitability

• Improves Health
• More Pork Out the Door
• Improves Consistency

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Nursery Summary
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Identifying the Problem
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Nursery SOP

• Title Hog Nursery Management
• SOP Managing Starve-Outs
• Scope The following procedures take the
  necessary steps to ensure that all starve-outs
  are handled properly to promote proper growth
• Responsibility It is the responsibility of
  Production Managers, Site Managers, and Growers
• Procedures
• 1)  Identify starve-outs early, use marking
  crayon and spot-treat these (beginning on day 2
  or 3)
• 2)  Pull starve-outs EARLY if not improving
• 3)  Make gruel and water available
• 4)  Add enticer to the gruel milk replacer or
  restart
• 5)  Control scouring through injecting or adding
  medication to gruel
• 6)  Spot treat
• 7)  Add Heat lamp
• 8)  Place only small amounts of feed on mats or
  tray. Feed should not remain on mats
  continuously
• 9.) Resort starve-out keeping less aggressive
  pigs separated

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Managing Starve-outs

• Walk pens and identify with crayon early
• Spot treat and mark treated pigs
• Pull starve-outs early
• Make gruel and water available for starve-outs
• Add Milk Replacer to gruel

• Control scouring through injections or orally
  admin-istering
• Add med to gruel
• Add heat lamps
• Place small amounts of feed on mats for
  starve-outs.

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Gruel Feeding / Mat Feeding

• Smalls gt8lbs
• Add milk Replacer starting day 1 gt8lbs
• All Starve -outs
• Gruel ad lib (as much as theyll eat)
• Gruel up to 14 days of age.
• Add Milk Replacer to Gruel
• Add Scour Medication

• 3 times a day for 3 days
• Small amounts on mats
• Add water to mats with feed on day 2 or 3 if feed
  consumption is low
• Mat feed day 4 first feeding if feed consumption
  is still low

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Controlling Humidity

• Increase minimum speed on stage 1
• Prop open hallway vents
• Increase hallway heat
• Lower set pt
• Shut down dripping nipples
• Check for leaks around fans

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Bag Feeding

• Feeders should be set all the way open before
  first feeding.
• All feeders should receive ½ bag of feed or less
  first feeding.
• Feeder should be set down before adding more feed
  which will be day 2 or 3
• Feed should stay moisture free in tray. If not
  control humidity.
• Large pigs should receive 1 ½ lbs before going to
  bulk feed.

• Large pigs bag feed should last for 5 days. Add
  1300 if extra time is needed to reach 5 days.
  Usually ¼ to ½ per hd.
• Medium pigs should receive 2 lbs of 2000. ½ to 2
  lbs of 1300 depending on their size and
  consum-ption. Add extra 1300 to poor starting
  pens with low consumption.
• Smalls under 8 lb should receive 1 to 2 lbs of
  3000, 2 lbs of 2000, and 1 to 2 lbs of 1300.

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Water Consumption
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Feeder Settings
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Improves the Health

• Put the focus on the problem areas
• Detailed procedures to improve these areas
• First 3 days of feeding procedures
• Reducing starve-out by early identification
• Using gruel and controlling scours
• Written program for each procedure
• A step by step blueprint
• Identification

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Improves consistency

• Easy to incorporate into all the nurseries with
  written sop
• Gets all the growers doing the same procedures
• If problem is higher in one nursery its easier to
  identify the problem by reviewing the written
  steps

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Finisher Improvement
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Identifying the Problem and Setting Expectations

• Setting goals
• 2.5 DL
• 2.5 culls
• 2.55 F/C

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Finisher SOP

• Title Hog Finisher Management
• SOP Ventilation
• Scope The following procedures take the
  necessary steps to ensure that a consistent
  temperature and comfortable environment is
  maintained by controlling ammonia, humidity, and
  even air flow.
• Responsibility It is the responsibility of
  Production Managers, Site Managers, and Growers
• Procedures
• 1) Winter Ventilation / mimimum ventilation
• 2)  Summer Ventilation
• 3)  Control Settings
• 4)  Tunnel Curtain Settings
• 5)  Static Pressure
• 6)  Ventilation Charts

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Summer Ventilation Chart Pull Plug Barns
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Ventilation Chart Your Changes
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Ammonia / Recharge / Overflow Chart
Barn _______________________
 
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Improving Health

• Can you rule out ventilation stress as a cause
  during health challenges?
• Can you rule out ammonia stress as a cause?
• Do you chart your ventilation changes?
• Do the charts show static pressure, bandwidth,
  set point, and inlet changes?
• Can you focus on the true health challenge
  ruling out management challenges?

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Improving Health

• Define ventilation expectations
• Temperature set points
• Minimum ventilation
• Tunnel curtain
• Bandwidths
• Put it in writing
• Chart changes

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SOP Benefit to the Contractor

• It standardizes the entire system
• Everyone is expected to be on the same page
• If you are not on the system, why not? If its
  better than the SOP, then incorporate it into the
  plan. If its not, then follow the SOP.
• It gives your service personnel a blueprint on
  how to service. Keeps all of the service
  personnel on the same focus and instructing
  growers in the same way.

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SOP Benefit to the Contractor Contd

• 5) You can gauge your service personnel on how
  well they follow the SOP.
• 6) You can implement changes easier throughout
  the entire system.
• 7) Nobody is left in the dark.
• 8)There is less confusion
• 9)Much easier to hold everyone
• accountable.

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Writing Standard Operating Procedures

• Make it simple enough to use and practical enough
  to follow
• Instructions should be specific enough to follow
  step by step.
• It should mimic your grower manual. In most
  cases it should be an extension of the manual

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Conclusion

• Develops consistency
• Excellent tool for focusing in on a problem
• Expectations are clear
• Improves Health
• Improves bottom line