Batch management: the only option to produce today

摘要

If we talk about group management, the first thing that comes to mind is that this is what small farms in Europe do, where they wean every three weeks. Nothing is so far from reality. Working with groups means organising our farm placing all sows in batches no matter if they wean once or twice per week, or every two, three, four or even five weeks. Size is not a limiting factor either when thinking about group management: we can group 100 sows as well as 100,000 sows.Indeed, grouping is necessary. To be profitable in the swine production sector today we need to organise our farm in batches.