Farm Animal Welfare

Pig Welfare Data Sharing Between Farms

Data sharing between farms on welfare performance creates benchmarking opportunities that drive improvement at sector level.

Key Facts

Welfare benchmarking requires comparable data from multiple farms to create meaningful peer comparison
Supply chain data sharing agreements enable retailer-led welfare benchmarking across suppliers
Industry organisations including AHDB facilitate voluntary welfare data collection and sharing
Anonymised benchmarking protects commercially sensitive farm data while enabling comparison
Digital data platforms are making welfare data collection and sharing increasingly practical

Welfare Considerations

Welfare data sharing creates the peer comparison and sector-level visibility that individual farm monitoring cannot achieve. Farms that understand how their welfare performance compares to peers have stronger incentives for improvement than those operating in isolation.

What You Can Do

Support supply chain welfare data sharing initiatives and benchmarking platforms
Advocate for industry-wide welfare data collection programmes enabling sector comparison
Engage with farm assurance schemes developing welfare data sharing and benchmarking capacity