Pig Farming

Pig Welfare and Benchmarking Advanced

Advanced benchmarking approaches compare pig welfare performance across farms, identifying best practices for sharing and targets for improvement.

Key Facts

Welfare Considerations

Advanced benchmarking goes beyond simple league tables to identify the specific management factors that distinguish high from low welfare performers. When analysis reveals that pen enrichment rotation or stockperson training frequency predicts welfare outcomes, this finding can be shared across the industry as an actionable recommendation. Benchmarking thus creates a feedback loop from performance data through management analysis to welfare improvement.

What You Can Do