BinSentry partnered with Hanor, one of North America’s top pork producers, on a year-long study that aimed to better understand the connection between out-of-feed events and feed conversion ratios.
From July 2022 to August 2023, 200 BinSentry sensors were installed across 28 Hanor sites with a total of 100 hog barns monitored.
What did we find? The vast majority of out-of-feed events were due to issues with manual bin slide management.
Position Paper: Exploring the connection between out-of-feed events and FCR
Position Paper: Exploring the connection between out-of-feed events and FCRTo date, there has never been a clear or strong correlation between feed outages and feed conversion ratios (FCR).
So, we wanted to understand why.
In this position paper, we take you through how, by monitoring tens of thousands of feed bins across North America, our team discovered a new, previously undetected source of out-of-feed events: Slide management.
By not being able to see or track slide management, you could be missing up to 80% of all outages.
