The Rural Voice, 1999-03, Page 33weaned but not yet transferred to the
nursery production stage.
Nursery Pig: Any weaned pig which
is at least 29 days of age and up to 70
pounds of weight. Associated with
the nursery stage of production.
Finisher Pig: Pigs beyond the
nursery stage being raised for sale.
Prospective Breeding Female: Any
female which is being fed for the
purpose of future introductions into
the breeding herd. This includes
weaner females, nursery pig females
and mature females being raised
under the same conditions as other
growing and finishing pigs.
Unmated Breeding Female: A
female introduced into the breeding
herd (characterized by the act of
changing diet formulations to those
found in the breeding herd) but not
yet mated. These are normally
classified with parity zero.
Mated Breeding Female: Any
female which has been mated at least
once and has not yet been removed
from the herd.
Breeding Female: An unmated
female kept for breeding purposes.
Boar: Any male pig in the herd for
breeding purposes.
Intact Pigs: Male pigs that have not
been castrated and have not been
kept for breeding purposes.
Meanwhile the financial
committee was developing
financial standards for the
industry. The standards help ensure
adequate debt and equity capital is
available to pork producers, provide
producers and others involved in the
industry with a way to uniformly
define costs, profits, return to capital
or assets and other financial formulas
and provide producers with a way to
define their financial results. In
addition financial standards provide
each pork producer and the industry a
way to compare individual operation
results, the financial results achieved
from adopting new technology and
other key financial improvement
information.
The financial standards will
improve producers' understanding of
their own operations, provide fairer
means of calculating contract
payments and cost-plus pricing,
improve access to capital, facilitate
benchmarking among farms and
regions and provide a means to carry
out applied research both internally
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