Pigs
Pigs: For Advisers & Agents
What Pigs changes for agronomists, agents, vets and consultants.
Advisers need scoped access, defensible records and a way to work across a client base without re-keying. 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.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Processor procurement
Supply planning
Needs forward visibility of numbers and specification.
- Set the breeding and production plan
- Manage service, farrowing and weaning
- Form and move batches
- Feed by phase and record intake
Pig veterinarian
Health planning
Needs medicine and mortality data before the visit.
- Manage service, farrowing and weaning
- Form and move batches
- Feed by phase and record intake
- Monitor health and biosecurity
Outdoor breeder
Breeding herd on arable rotation
Needs nutrient loading managed alongside sow performance.
- Form and move batches
- Feed by phase and record intake
- Monitor health and biosecurity
- Finish to contract specification
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.
Capabilities
What Pigs does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Breeding herd performance with pigs born alive, weaned and per sow per year
- Batch management from weaning through growing to finishing
- Feed conversion ratio and feed cost per kilogram of gain
Operate and monitor
- Diet phase management with specification and cost per tonne
- Health status classification and monitoring
- Biosecurity protocol with visitor, vehicle and delivery controls
Comply and evidence
- Mortality and morbidity recording with cause analysis
- Contract and specification management with weight and probe bands
- Slaughter feedback capture with grading and deductions
Analyse and improve
- Antimicrobial usage recording and benchmarking
- Building environment monitoring — temperature, ventilation and ammonia
- Outdoor unit land management including rotation and nutrient loading
Traceability
The chain behind one batch
Livestock traceability is statutory, the reporting window is short, and it runs through a different national system in each nation. The record is assembled as the animal moves rather than reconstructed at audit.
BATCH-3300B1
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Born on holding
- Who
- Holding of birth
- Evidence
- Ear tag applied and registered
- Held in
- British Cattle Movement Service
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Health intervention
- Who
- Veterinary practice
- Evidence
- Medicine record with withdrawal period
- Held in
- Medicine book
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Moved
- Who
- Haulier
- Evidence
- Statutory movement report within the reporting window
- Held in
- British Cattle Movement Service
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Received
- Who
- Destination holding
- Evidence
- Arrival recorded, standstill applied
- Held in
- Holding register
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Slaughtered
- Who
- Approved abattoir
- Evidence
- Kill sheet, classification and food chain information
- Held in
- FSA
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Sold
- Who
- Buyer
- Evidence
- Batch linked to the carcase and the holding of origin
- Held in
- Platform record
Take the record with you
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Pigs
The problem: Needs feed conversion and grid performance daily.
What they do
- Set the breeding and production plan
- Manage service, farrowing and weaning
- Form and move batches
- Feed by phase and record intake
What changes
- Pigs per sow per year
- Feed conversion ratio
- Feed cost per kilogram of gain
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Pigs per sow per year
- 02Feed conversion ratio
- 03Feed cost per kilogram of gain
- 04Mortality rate
- 05Percentage in specification
- 06Antimicrobial usage
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.