Economic feasibility of interventions targeted at decreasing piglet perinatal and pre-weaning mortality across European countries

Table 1 Costs, revenues and performance parameters used in the bio-economic model for six countries

Bio-economic parameters	Country¹
Bio-economic parameters	A	B	C	D	E	F
Economic parameters
Gestation feed (€/1000 MJ NE)	20.61	19.12	20.39	18.27	18.69	17.42
Lactation feed (€/1000 MJ NE)	25.07	23.26	24.81	22.22	22.74	21.19
Piglet feed (€/1000 MJ NE)	46.55	43.19	46.07	41.27	42.23	39.35
Price of labor (€/h)	14	25	16	22	18	18
Labor per sow/year (h)	8.1	7.5	10.7	11	12.0	10.4
Labor per litter (h/litter)	1.69	1.67	1.67	2	1.67	1.67
Labor per litter (h/day)	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.06	0.03	0.03
Labor per weaner (min/day)	0.34	0.40	0.40	0.13	0.40	0.40
Labor per insemination (h)	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Fixed cost of housing (€/m²)²	118	240	246	257	284	351
Price of gilt (€/gilt)	200	265	310	226	275	350
Price of insemination dose (€/dose)	3.2	3	3.6	4	2.7	5
Value of culled sow (€/sow)	190	124	170	152	165	108
Sale price of weaner, (€/weaner)³	53	35.2	45	44	59	55
Farm performance⁴
Number of liveborn piglets per litter	12.7	14.4	14.4	16.1	13.6	11.6
Stillbirths	8.7	7.4	8.1	9.5	7.2	7.2
Pre-weaning mortality %	11.9	13.5	13.5	15.2	12.8	10.7

¹The values have been obtained from literature [16, 28, 32] as well as personal communication with members of the PROHEALTH consortium. The six countries were randomly coded as A, B, C, D, E and F due to anonymity requirements
²Including country differences for requirements concerning m² for piglets and sows, farm size, quality of the building (lifetime) and the ratio of a number of places (e.g. countries with a high sow performance need more piglet and fattening places per sow than countries with a lower performance). Because the cost of housing capacity is a time-constant factor, these costs did not influence the optimal timing of replacement
³For country C, D, E and F the price was estimated for 30 kg piglet, for country A the price was for 20 kg piglet, for country B the price was for 25 kg piglet
⁴Calculated based on data collected from farms across Europe [16, 32]

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