After 28 days of practice on 8 farms, including 1 boar station and 7 sow farms, with a farm scale of 450-1500 heads and farm performance ranging from PSY33-38. During the four week study period, the Changrong team, led by Dutch training consultant Jan, conducted in-depth learning, exchanges, and discussions on various aspects of the Dutch pig farming industry, workflow, and principles of pig farming technology. Deeply understand the secrets of efficient pig farming in Dutch family farms. Provided a lot of excellent management experience for Changrong in production management and family farm management, which can be used for reference.

The composition of the Dutch pig farming system is a highly efficient modern breeding management system model formed by the close cooperation between the Dutch government and animal welfare associations, and between upstream and downstream. The government has provided comprehensive guidance on the development direction, profit direction, disease prevention and control, animal welfare, product value, and other aspects of the Dutch aquaculture industry through standardization and unification. Let the farm know how to operate and develop under unified planning and deployment? How can we achieve more profits? How to coordinate prevention and control? How to achieve the best value of the product? This system management approach has become the cornerstone of the healthy development of the entire industry.

Secondly, there are farm consultants who continue to assist PSY in improving and enhancing. There is a very close connection between upstream and downstream, and different meat types will have different prices. This mechanism also forms the downstream actively providing feedback to the upstream, promoting continuous communication between upstream and downstream. Ultimately achieving a market-oriented industrial chain model. They are good at sharing experiences with each other, and farm consultants are the link between them. Through farm consultants, they can share the good aspects, technical summaries, and experiences of each farm, promoting the continuous improvement of the entire industry level.

opportunities and challenges

Compared to farming in the Netherlands, three environments pose relatively significant challenges for China, namely industrial environment, disease environment, and climate environment. These things may not be easy for us to make too many changes on our own, but we also need to see that the changes we can make are focused on making more internal changes within the farm. Such changes can also continuously improve the production performance of the farm and reduce its production costs.

Five Strategies for Efficient Farming

Construction: Efficiency begins with 'pig centeredness'

I have always believed that efficiency begins with the construction of enclosures. A comprehensive layout and planning that ensures all construction plans and equipment are designed to facilitate pig farming is the most important prerequisite for achieving farm efficiency. The most important key point is the ability to use equipment to replace people, and it is necessary to use equipment to replace people. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure multiple aspects such as infrastructure construction, equipment installation, equipment functionality, and compatibility with pig flow design. Why can Dutch farms be passed down for three generations and can be renovated and upgraded at low cost at any time? We need to ask a few more questions about why.

Tools: Using the right tools doubles efficiency

Reasonable use of tools can not only improve work efficiency, but also reduce the impact of personnel on production fluctuations on production results. At the same time, only with fewer personnel factors involved can the formed process and summarized experience be more reliable and generalizable. Because such results are more objective and not influenced by subjective factors.

Process: Refactoring SOP from the underlying logic

The process is the most important and easiest link to change and optimize. So after this learning, there will be more things to practice in optimizing the process. The optimization of processes needs to be based on continuous experimentation and summarization, and cannot be generalized and blindly applied. It is necessary to understand the logical principles behind it in order to know what kind of process is suitable for oneself. I used to think that the process was just summarizing the work done every day and standardizing the operational details. Now it seems that this process is just superficial. The real process is a management process that relies on underlying logical principles and is summarized based on the efficient operation of this experiment.

Team: Efficiency comes from "balance between people and efficiency" and value recognition

An efficient team requires long-term adaptation and sufficient trust and understanding among each other. At the same time, everyone helps each other, has a common goal, can meet their own value needs, and can ensure that work is completed on time, with quality and quantity. The change of the team is the most difficult part compared to other changes. How to solve their problems through performance design, process attention, and timely assistance is the key to achieving success. Therefore, low labor costs, high returns on investment, and ample vacation time may be the key to driving smooth progress.

Update: The 'intergenerational gain' of seed sources and technological upgrades

Firstly, the selection of seed sources and the update of pig herds. How to correctly choose the suitable seed source and how to update the population are also important components of an efficient farm. Europe often chooses Haebar and Topec as seed sources. They feel that these two varieties not only meet their performance requirements, but also have the characteristics of easy management. Easy management means reducing human intervention and increasing efficiency.

There are many methods for population renewal, such as keeping their own sows and collecting boar semen for self preservation, or directly purchasing semen and sows from outside. It's worth saying that they always know what they want to improve on? They will choose what kind of pigs to breed. Farm consultants will help the farm continuously improve and enhance through experimentation and research and development. They will help clients update their farm processes and plans based on changes in nutrition, breeding progress, and environment. Help them achieve continuous improvement in grades through updates.

An efficient farm depends on a high level of coordination between people, pigs, and equipment. Equipment is always the most loyal, as long as it has no faults, always operates according to the established plan, and never discounts. Therefore, timely maintenance and not using manual equipment are important. Pigs never lie, they only express their most genuine needs every day, but whether we truly pay attention to what information they convey to us every day and meet their needs is the most important thing. People are the most important and uncontrollable link, because they are always the most emotional and easily influenced by emotions. Therefore, how to reduce the impact of people on production results? How to replace human work with equipment? How to make people work easily and happily, and have enough time to be with pigs, and feel what needs pigs really want to say to people? This is very, very important!!

Copying will never bring you the results you want. If you can simply copy, China's aquaculture level has long been no different from that of Europe and America. What we need more is to master the underlying logic and clarify what we want to improve? What is good to collect relevant data and analyze? What is not good? Through experimental verification, summarize the promotion effect. The process formed in this way is the most suitable for efficient breeding in one's own field. The true standardization 2.0 version is achieved through underlying logic, extensive data analysis, and summarization to extract processes that are suitable for oneself. It should not be a standardized manual with hundreds of pages, but rather the essence of thin reading.

This study tour has come to a successful conclusion. Thank you Jan for your continuous guidance and guidance during the four week period. Thank you to Teacher Xiaotang for building a bridge of communication. Thank you to every farmer and employee for sharing. Thank you to every colleague for their daily questions and summary sharing. Thank you to the company platform for providing such learning opportunities.

I have learned a lot of useful knowledge during this learning process, which has had a profound impact on my team's thinking, cognition, specialized knowledge, and future work guidance. At the same time, this is also an important step for Changrong to become a leader in China's new type of farm. In the future, the Changrong team will continue to deepen their learning and experience summary of efficient farms in Europe, and apply these valuable practical achievements to family farms, providing long-term empowerment for partners and jointly promoting efficient and sustainable development of the industry.