Homogenising pig growth

Published: Jan. 1, 2024, 8 a.m.

Consulting economist Lance Mulberry is based in Missouri, USA. He shares his opinion about the pig industry\u2019s tendency to focus on average to evaluate on-farm economic performance. He will address problems related to that tendency: it ignores variation and suggests that the underlying distribution is a normal. That way using averages will result in hidden costs, having many \nimplications for the industry. His plea is to apply a more precision based approach\n\n

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