Who is squeezed hardest — total cost vs price received
x = total cost, all pigs (EUR/kg) · y = finisher price received (EUR/kg live) · bubble = kg produced. Top-right is the comfortable corner.
Margin per kg — ranked
Finisher price received minus total cost (all pigs), EUR per kg. Group Ø = EU-6 simple mean, solid line.
What moved since 2H 2025 — margin per kg
Hollow dot = 2H 2025, filled = 1H 2026. Sorted by change; green moved the right way. EU-6 only — PLUM-VE (VES conversion) and RGD-DK (2H 2025 cost base) are left out.
Realised finisher price — ranked, with the national 3tres3 quotation
Bars = EUR/kg live sold externally. Ring = the 1H 2026 mean of the national 3tres3 quotation, converted to live weight where the quotation is carcass. No quotation for Lithuania and Slovakia. PLUM-VE (2.76 EUR/kg, VES conversion) is off-scale and left out.
Realised price 2H 2025 → 1H 2026
Hollow = 2H 2025, filled = 1H 2026, EUR/kg live. Sorted by change. PLUM-VE left out (USD-linked price up 6 %, VES/EUR a single period rate).
Market quotations, piglets and feed — 2H 2025 · 1H 2026 · Jul–Oct 2026
Simple means of weekly 3tres3 quotations per window, in local currency and EUR. Bases differ by market — read the basis column.
Own-stage cost per kg — sow, weaner and finisher stage side by side
Stage total cost with WIP removed (sow stage: gilts removed), so stages do not double-count. Each panel has its own scale and its own EU-7 Ø.
Total cost, all pigs — ranked
EUR per kg produced, five blocks: feed, labour, energy, vet & med, other. Ø = EU-6 total cost.
Feed-cost gap: structural (feed price) vs efficiency (FCR)
€ M per half-year on own volume. Price gap to the cheapest buyer (RGD-DK, 0.260 EUR/kg) is geography; FCR gap to the best (PLUM-VE, 2.40) is management.
FCR prize — what matching the best whole-herd FCR is worth per half-year
Whole-herd FCR — ranked
kg feed per kg live-weight gain, sow to slaughter, over actual weights. No external whole-herd reference exists in kg/kg — the stage references are on the next chart.
Finisher FCR — raw and standardised to 115 kg, against three references
Hollow = raw (actual sale weight), filled = standardised (−0.013 per kg above 115 kg). Reference markers are labelled with their unit and period and are never a gap.
Finisher FCR history 2020 → 2026 — group Ø against the DK top-25 %
Finisher and weaner stage FCR per round, as presented in the workbook. Dotted violet = the DK-25 % series as shown at the time.
Daily gain drives throughput — DLWG vs kg produced per finisher place
x = finisher daily gain (g) · y = kg produced per finisher place per half-year (workbook definition) · bubble = kg produced. PLUM-VE omitted (place definition differs).
Finisher daily gain — ranked against three references
g/day over actual entry → sale weights. Weight ranges differ (DAN-SL and GV-PL sell at 119–123 kg).
Finishers sold per place per half-year — the utilisation check
Finishers sold ÷ finisher places. Below ~1.5 the barns are not full; PA-SL at 1.05 is a utilisation problem, not a growth problem.
Mortality prize — direct sale value of the gap to the best, per half-year
Wean-to-finish mortality
% of pigs entered, weaning to sale. RGD-DK not comparable (30 kg split).
Finisher mortality
% of finishers entered. DK references are dead only; SEGES dead + condemned would be 2.6.
Sow mortality
% of average sows per year, dead and euthanised. SEGES 2025 national average as the marker.
Does sow productivity pay? Weaned per sow vs total cost per kg
x = weaned pigs per sow per year · y = total cost, all pigs (EUR/kg, reversed so up is better) · bubble = kg produced. Pearson r = −0.59 (n = 6, EU-6).
Weaned per sow per year — ranked against SEGES
Row 18. Markers: SEGES 2025 national average 36.9, DK top-25 % 40.2, InterPIG DK 2024 35.6.
Sow-stage history 2020 → 2026 — DFA group Ø against the SEGES national average and top-25 %
DFA half-year rounds (solid, ink) against SEGES calendar years (violet, placed at the second half of each year). Weaned/sow, live-born, pre-weaning mortality, weaner daily gain, weaner mortality, sow mortality.
Health cost per kg of whole-herd output, by stage
EUR per kg produced, whole herd; each block = that stage's health-care spend ÷ whole-herd kg. Total = health cost / kg, whole herd.
Sow-farm hours per sow per year
Sow-farm employee hours × 2 ÷ average sows. Pure management — it travels across borders where wages do not.
Electricity per tonne sold
Farm electricity, kWh per tonne sold externally (feed mill excluded). Gap to best at 0.15 EUR/kWh (assumed) = € 1.9 M per half-year.
The six biggest single moves — unflagged efficiency KPIs
Hollow = 2H 2025, filled = 1H 2026; each lane has its own scale. Green = moved the right way; the % is direction-adjusted.
Improvement rank — mean direction-adjusted change over eight core KPIs
Whole-herd FCR, finisher FCR, finisher gain, finisher / weaner / pre-weaning mortality, weaned/sow, total cost — comparable KPIs only (n per company shown).
Total cost, all pigs — 2H 2025 → 1H 2026
The cost side of the margin squeeze. Hollow = 2H 2025, filled = 1H 2026, EUR per kg. PLUM-VE hatched (VES conversion); RGD-DK has no comparable 2H 2025 cost base and is not shown.
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Deviation from group Ø — right is better
Percent deviation from the comparable-set Ø, direction-adjusted so that right always means better. KPIs where the company is not comparable are left out.
Cost structure vs group
EUR per kg whole-herd output, five blocks, all companies plus the EU-7 Ø row — yours is named in teal.
Value of closing each gap — EUR per half-year on own volume and own prices
Gap to the chosen target × EUR per unit (own feed price, own pig prices, own sows). Efficiency rows are actionable and add to the total; the feed-price row is structural and shown for context.
Flags on this company — please comment at the meeting
Each note says what looks different in the data and what the group would like the company to explain.
SEGES Landsgennemsnit 2020 → 2025 — with the DFA group Ø alongside
National weighted averages per calendar year, the 2025 top-25 % (medians), and the DFA group Ø for the last two rounds. SEGES FCR is in FEsv per kg; DFA FCR is kg per kg.
DK top-25 % column in the DFA workbook
Column K of Benchmark 1H-2026_Group — the reference the group has always used. Note the FCR unit question.
PIGS365 — Danish population, 1H 2026
IQinAbox's own population: top-25 % threshold, population mean and the top-10 overview. FUgp per kg, standardised 30–115 kg (finishers) and 7–30 kg (weaners).
InterPIG — cost of production per kg carcass
EUR per kg carcass, full chain, new-build capital basis. 2025 are trade-press headline figures. Context only — never a gap against DFA EUR per kg live.
3tres3 quotations — the market each company sells into
Simple means of weekly quotations per window; latest weekly quote as read on 24 Oct 2026.
Formulas and conventions
Comparable sets — who is in each Ø
Group Ø is a simple mean over the KPI's comparable set. Flagged companies stay in the picture (hatched) but out of the Ø and the "best".