Animal Science
May 2008

Pork Checkoff Develops Production Cost Factsheet

The Pork Checkoff has developed a factsheet to assist producers in this period of high feed and production costs. This list of “management tips” and resources were compiled by the Pork Checkoff to assist producers in identifying opportunities to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. 

This information was gathered from experts and producers across academia and industry and from many valuable industry based Web sites in the United States and Canada. These tips are not listed in any order of priority and implementation should be considered based on the needs of each individual operation. Included with many of the tips are links for additional information. These are by no means all-inclusive and there may be many other sources of information in addition to these we have identified in this document.

Many of these tips and many other suggestions for reducing feed costs and increasing efficiencies are available from sources including extension Web sites at many major universities. In addition, most of these tips are supported by fact sheets and references at the Pork Information Gateway: (PIG) at www.porkgateway.org and the Pork Checkoff’s Web site at www.pork.org. This document is available through the Pork Checkoff Website by clicking on “Tips to Address High Feed and Production Costs”.

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