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Is the ability to focus on the farm a superpower? It might be. In today’s modern pork production systems, the amount of data available combined with the number of challenges coming from all directions makes the concept of “focus” easier said than done.
Brad Eckberg, business analyst at MetaFarms, Inc., spends a lot of time evaluating data, talking to producers and visiting pork production systems around the country. He believes the difference between systems that are performing really well and those that are not comes down to focus – specifically in the dollars to dimes.
“Those companies that are exceeding have their foot on the gas pedal every single day, all the time. They are really locked into data,” Eckberg says.
It’s easy to get “in the weeds” of day-to-day pork production, which leaves little time to analyze on-farm data. But Eckberg says monitoring data on a frequent basis is key.
“You don't know what you don't measure,” he points out. “Producers need to be able to say, ‘Here is where we're at, here is where we want to be as a goal for an improvement.’”
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