Farm Animal Welfare

Pig Welfare and Data Sharing for Improvement

Sharing welfare data between farms, vets, and researchers accelerates welfare improvement. Open data approaches allow benchmarking and identification of best practice.

Key Facts

Farm-level welfare data is rarely shared in ways that enable cross-farm comparison
Benchmarking welfare indicators between farms identifies improvement opportunities
Vet practice data pooling provides population-level insights unavailable from single farms
Open data welfare initiatives are demonstrating the value of aggregated information
Industry and academic partnerships are developing welfare data sharing platforms

Welfare Considerations

Data sharing accelerates welfare improvement by enabling benchmarking, identifying outliers, and spreading best practice. Overcoming commercial data sharing barriers could significantly accelerate welfare progress.

What You Can Do

Support organisations developing open farm welfare data platforms
Advocate for welfare data transparency in certification and assurance schemes
Learn about welfare data and its role in driving farm improvement
Support research partnerships between industry and academics on welfare data