Producers can either actively implement new strategies to improve performance or they might decide not to change anything and simply monitor what happens – it’s up to each producer.

All it takes to enter is to provide a set of data from anytime between 1 January 2012 and now, then another set on 31 September 2012.

• Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR): Estimate this using the amount of feed purchased in relation to the number of liveweight kilograms sold.
  
  
• Average Daily Gain (ADG): Weigh all pigs at every stage or, alternatively, select a room, a litter or 10-20 random pigs of various sizes to weigh just a sample of pigs at each stage.
  
  
• Mortality: Count the number of pigs when they enter a room/building and then keep a record of how many go into the hospital pens, are streamed off, sold or die.