Module

Grow-Finish

The wean-to-market side of the operation. Track every batch from placement through ship, order feed the way a mill dispatcher thinks (one truck, one trip, compartments), watch bin levels draw down against the ration each barn is actually eating, run a liquid-feed kitchen or a continuous-flow barn, and close out against the kill sheet — so cost per pig is a live number, not a closeout-day surprise.

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The SwineOps Grow-Finish module — Feed orders: farms needing feed, worst first

What it does

Batches, barns & rooms

Batch tracking from placement through ship, with movements that keep inventory current
Continuous-flow barns — rooms inside a barn, a batch-to-room ledger, and a room board that shows what is where today
Mortality with cause codes, coloured against each farm's own threshold on the dashboard
Farm settings on one page — barns over their bins, inline add, retire and relay chips
Batch import wizard for bringing an existing operation's history in

Feed ordering, the way a mill sees it

An order is one truck on one trip; every line names a compartment and a destination bin, and the trailer is packed at bin capacity
Ordering starts from the farms that need feed — the order-by date respects the bin, the mill's lead time, and the calendar
Build loads — a planning screen that groups by ration and packs trips to a minimum
A combined trucking sheet emailed straight to the mill's ordering contact, in the mill's own template
Orders deliver themselves on the expected date; the button becomes "reconcile"
Simple feed mode for operations that buy feed and don't care about trucks

Bin levels & the burn model

A per-bin inventory ledger — deliveries and readings layer by product, sensor-fed where BinSentry is installed, calculated where it isn't
Age-based daily intake, so the projection burns from the bin the barn is actually feeding from
Silo-to-batch map — drag a bin onto the batch it feeds, with delivery attribution and a history drawer
Staged next-phase feed advances the budget phase on its own when the current bin runs empty
30-day per-silo forecast and a weekly delivery schedule board, with per-farm no-delivery days

Liquid feed & mill recipes

Liquid-feed kitchen per farm — ingredient bins, recipe bins, fills, and a metered closeout
Liquid feed plans on batches — a dry-matter curve by day that handles both ration types
Feed components with an append-only price history, and versioned recipes on each feed product profile with a written cost-per-tonne history
Wet and dry flows through every picker; an in-tank recipe switch warns before it happens

Imports, feeds & integrations

Kill-data imports for Sofina, Conestoga Meat Packers and Johnston Packers; feed-invoice imports for Wallenstein and Clearbrook
An invoice inbox — forward the mill's PDF to your organization's address and it imports itself, or waits for review if unrecognised
Hog market feed — CME lean hog index and futures, USDA reports, and a projected value on every active batch
Mae-Mart / MJ feed-order webhook, and platform-managed mill integrations

Market & closeout

Sort/grade analysis drawn at the size differences actually are — payout per pig by grade, barn, and week
Cross-barn analytics as small multiples, with waterfall, cost-mix, and condemn Pareto charts
Actual and freight-adjusted cost side by side, with FCR restated to a standard weight window
Single-batch or barn-range closeouts, liquid closeouts split by room, and multi-batch comparison

A closer look

SwineOps Grow-Finish — One truck, one trip: compartments onto bins — One truck, one trip: compartments onto bins

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Silo map: which batch eats from which bin — Silo map: which batch eats from which bin

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Liquid-feed kitchen: ingredient bins, recipes, rooms — Liquid-feed kitchen: ingredient bins, recipes, rooms

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Continuous-flow room board — Continuous-flow room board

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Bin levels ledger — Bin levels ledger

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Load planner: the week's deliveries — Load planner: the week's deliveries

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Grow-finish dashboard — Grow-finish dashboard

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Sort & grade — Sort & grade

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Cross-barn analytics — Cross-barn analytics

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Hog market: cash index, futures, projected value — Hog market: cash index, futures, projected value

SwineOps Grow-Finish — Farm settings on one page — Farm settings on one page

How it works

1
Place the batch

Open the batch at placement — or place it into a room in a continuous-flow barn; head count and bin assignment start the record.
2
Budget the feed

Apply a dry or liquid feed budget template; per-phase ration burns against head and days, and the next phase stages itself.
3
Order and watch the bins

The farms-needing-feed list says who to order for and by when; pack the truck, email the mill, and the delivery lands on the bin on its own.
4
Sort, ship & close out

Ship to the packer, drop the kill sheet in the inbox, and the batch closes out with cost per pig — actual and freight-adjusted — already built.

KPIs this module tracks

Average daily gain (ADG)Feed conversion (FCR)Adjusted FCR (standard weight window)Mortality % against thresholdFeed cost per pig (actual & freight-adjusted)Days on feed to marketBin days of feed remainingProjected batch value

How it connects

Grow-Finish runs against the batches the Sow & Breeding module weans, and every feed order, delivery, and kill sheet lands in Financial against the same batch — so modeled burn and real cost meet on the same record. Licensing Grow-Finish includes Financial. Trucks and compartments are shared with Movement & Compliance, and the barn's grow-finish status rolls up into the Operations Hub for the manager.

Grow-Finish is where the cost of a market hog is actually made, and most of it stays invisible until closeout in a spreadsheet operation. SwineOps models feed burn from the bin the barn is actually eating out of, tells you which farms to order for and by when, packs the truck, and rolls the kill sheet back onto the batch — so feed conversion, days to market, and cost per pig are numbers you watch all the way to the packer, not ones you reconstruct after the pigs are gone. Dry bins, liquid kitchens, all-in-all-out barns and continuous-flow rooms all run on the same record.

Frequently asked

Is "consumed" feed what was delivered, or what was eaten?

Modeled burn — age-based daily intake × head, drawn from the bin the barn is actually feeding from — not delivery. On-hand is the bin's ledger (deliveries and readings, layered by product), so the bin number reflects what's actually left and the cost forecast moves with the batch instead of waiting for the invoice.

How does feed ordering work?

The way a mill dispatcher thinks. An order is one truck on one trip; each line names a compartment, a ration, and the bin it lands in, capped at that bin's capacity. SwineOps tells you which farms need feed and by when, packs the trailer for you, and emails the mill a trucking sheet. When the expected date arrives the delivery posts itself and you reconcile against the invoice.

We feed liquid. Does it handle a kitchen?

Yes. A farm can be marked liquid-fed, with ingredient bins (dry, wet, or utility), recipe bins, fills, and a metered or split closeout by room. Liquid feed plans put a dry-matter curve on the batch, and recipes on feed product profiles carry a written cost-per-tonne history.

What about continuous-flow barns?

A barn can hold rooms. Batches are placed into rooms, movements pick a room, and the room board shows what is in each one today. Bin shares are derived from the room ledger, so feed attribution and a liquid closeout split by rooms follow the pigs.

Can I compare cost per pig fairly between a delivered-feed farm and a self-haul farm?

Yes. Closeout shows actual and adjusted figures side by side — self-hauled tonnage gets a freight add-back at your configured $/tonne, and FCR is restated to a standard weight window — so farms compare on a level field.

How do kill sheets and feed invoices get in?

Upload them, or forward them. Sofina, Conestoga and Johnston Packers kill data and Wallenstein and Clearbrook feed invoices import directly; each organization also has an inbox address, so a PDF the mill emails lands on the right batch without anyone re-keying it. A file nobody recognises waits for review rather than being guessed at.

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