Pigs
Pigs: Overview
The short version of what Pigs does and why it exists.
Pig production runs on tight feed conversion margins and high health status, both of which collapse quickly when records lapse. This module manages breeding herd performance, growing and finishing batches, feed conversion and cost, health status and biosecurity, and the contract and specification against which every pig is priced.
Detail
Why Pigs exists
Pig production runs on tight feed conversion margins and high health status, both of which collapse quickly when records lapse. This module manages breeding herd performance, growing and finishing batches, feed conversion and cost, health status and biosecurity, and the contract and specification against which every pig is priced.
Pig production is exposed to feed price volatility more directly than any other livestock enterprise, and health status is the dominant determinant of performance. Fair dealing regulations for the pig sector have been in development, which will change contract transparency. Antimicrobial usage is closely monitored through sector reporting.
Everything Pigs records is written into the same platform data spine as every other module, which is why a single entry can satisfy an operational need, a scheme evidence requirement, an assurance clause and a carbon activity line at once. That is the whole design premise: the work is already being done, and it is the recording of it that is duplicated.
The ground reality
What is actually happening in pigs in the UK
Pig production is exposed to feed price volatility more directly than any other livestock enterprise, and health status is the dominant determinant of performance. Fair dealing regulations for the pig sector have been in development, which will change contract transparency. Antimicrobial usage is closely monitored through sector reporting.
Figures are as published at the time of writing. Farm policy and payment rates change frequently — verify against the primary source before relying on any number here.
In the field
Pigs, as it actually looks
Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.
Pigs — a walkthrough
A working pass through pigs: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 0:00 What the module is for
- 0:48 Entering the record
- 2:05 Where it appears next
- 3:20 The evidence pack
Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.
In practice
Six things Pigs changes on day one
None of these requires a new process. They all come from recording the work you already do, once, in a form the rest of the platform can use.
Breeding herd performance with pigs
Breeding herd performance with pigs born alive, weaned and per sow per year.
Batch management from weaning through
Batch management from weaning through growing to finishing.
Feed conversion ratio and feed
Feed conversion ratio and feed cost per kilogram of gain.
Diet phase management with specification
Diet phase management with specification and cost per tonne.
Health status classification and monitoring
Health status classification and monitoring.
Biosecurity protocol with visitor, vehicle
Biosecurity protocol with visitor, vehicle and delivery controls.
End to end
How Pigs runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Set the breeding and production plan
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Manage service, farrowing and weaning
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Form and move batches
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Feed by phase and record intake
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Monitor health and biosecurity
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Finish to contract specification
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Capture slaughter feedback
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Reconcile cost of production per kilogram
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
How we handle evidence
Where these figures come from
Agrivencia grades every figure it publishes. Primary legislation, official statistics and audit reports are treated as authoritative. Levy body and professional body data is treated as reliable. Commercial trackers and trade press are treated as indicative and labelled as such. Where sources conflict, the conflict is shown rather than resolved silently.
- Authoritative Legislation, statutory instruments, official scheme rules, national audit and public accounts reporting, departmental annual reports and accredited official statistics.
- Reliable Parliamentary committee evidence, peer-reviewed research, independent economic institutes and levy body analysis.
- Supporting Professional bodies, land agents, certification schemes and industry associations.
- Indicative Commercial market trackers and trade press, used for corroboration only and always labelled.
Payment rates, caps and windows in UK farm support change frequently and sometimes without notice. Nothing on this platform is a substitute for the current published scheme rules or for professional advice.
Free tool
Run the numbers for your own holding
Enter your figures and get an answer you can act on, with the method shown so you can check it. Save the result to your account or take it away as a PDF.