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26 THE RURAL VOICE
after the customer -centred business
means you need to be sure your
production system matches the needs
of your supply chain partners. "Are
there production interruptions,
bottlenecks or deviations that your
customer or the rest of the supply
chain can't deal with?", he asked.
Processors, for instance, need to have
product every day of the week.
Because of the requirements of
meeting customer -centred markets,
this tends to be "a proprietary
system", with the processor
controlling from primary production
through processing to sales.
One of the keys is how to manage
variability, Cohoe said. "We need to
take more of a look at what it takes to
create a differentiated system."
More benefits of reducing
variability of pigs were
discussed by Cathy Aker,
technical director with Ontario Swine
Improvement Inc. While it's
important for the future improvement
of pigs that genetic variability be
maintained and all pigs not be
identical, at the farm level variation
increases costs of production and
decreases efficiency, she said.
Genetic variability expresses itself
in everything from litter size to
growth rate to feed intake and
efficiency to carcass characteristics.
"We need to minimize variability
but understand that we can't
eliminate it," Aker said.
Aker gave an example of the cost
impact of variability in growth rates
when she examined what happens
with pigs having to be held longer to
reach market weight. Keeping a pig
beyond 23 weeks cost $6.29 for one
week, $15.49 for two weeks and
$26.16 for three weeks. The average
cost of pigs shipped after 160 days is
$15.18 (based on 10,000 market hogs
a year).
But if a farmer decided he needed
to clean out the barn and shipped
every pig remaining in the barn at 24
weeks of age, 23 per cent would go
out light and at $1.50 kg that would
cost a producer of 10,000 market
hogs $54,000 a year.
Even among pigs from the same
genetic stock, management can affect
variability from one farm to another.
Management is also the key to
reducing variability, Aker said.
"Motivate yourself by finding out