Megaplan
Maximize technical and economic performance in finishing
- Access a decision-making tool for pig finishing
- Maximize performance through feed program selection
- Guide improvements in farm management
- Advise the farmer on their farming strategy
Who is it for?
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Nutritionist
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Livestock Manager
Context
Feed is the biggest expense in pig finishing operations and directly determines the farm’s profitability. Given the high volatility of raw material costs and finished product prices, a thorough understanding of nutrition and the ability to adjust feeding programs with precision have become key to controlling costs while maintaining high zootechnical performance.
- Mixscience offers livestock technicians Megaplan, a nutritional modeling tool designed to optimize the technical and economic performance of a pig finishing operation.
Deliverables
- Estimation of a finishing operation’s performance potential
- Calculation of the farm’s margin for improvement, derived from comparing expected results (potential performance) with actual results
- Impact of one or more nutritional changes on zootechnical results (ADG, FCR, LMP). These changes may involve a single feed, multiple feeds, or the feeding plan.
- Impact of one or more nutritional changes on economic results (cost per kg of gain, margin per pig).
- Determination of the optimal slaughter weight: the weight that allows the farmer to maximize their gross margin
- Automatic report: this presents the initial situation, the various scenarios selected by the Megaplan user, and the corresponding technical and economic results.
Key features
Megaplan is a unique decision-making tool structured around three key areas:
- Firstly, nutrition: Megaplan helps the technician to adapt the feeding plan and the nutritionist to adjust the nutritional levels of the feed.
- Next,farm management, for which the margin for improvement calculated by Megaplan serves as the best overall indicator.
- Finally,the strategy: Megaplan provides the farmer with the most profitable technical objectives by identifying the optimal slaughter weight.
Megaplan is a highly effective modeling tool.
This performance is based first and foremost on the robustness of its equations, the result of extensive research and development work carried out by Mixscience’s Data Lab. It also stems from the tool’s ability to adapt to each farm by incorporating a wide range of parameters: farm-specific characteristics (genetics, sex, feeding program, rationing plan, etc.), as well as market parameters (feed prices, payment scale).
Megaplan is a user-friendly and educational tool: it automatically generates a report for the farmer, featuring clear graphs and customizable comments.
Megaplan has been very well received since its launch (Innovspace 2023, Journées de la Recherche Porcine 2025). It is now highly praised by all technical staff who use it to manage the performance of their farmers.