Measure your poultry farm performance with AgConnexion │ Aviscan

Measuring your performance and comparing your results with others is the basis of sound management. Analyzing helps you improve. That’s why Sollio Agriculture has developed AgConnexion │Aviscan, an effective and user-friendly tool for poultry farmers.

Aviscan allows you to work on several levels, depending on your analysis needs. First, it compiles technical and economic performance data. This is essentially the equivalent of receiving a grade on a school report card.

Then, there’s what you might call a full report card, including the compiled performances of all the lots produced on the farm during the year. This allows you to see your progress in performance over time. Together, you and your agri-advisor can set goals to achieve for various technical and economic farming parameters.

It’s even more interesting to compare yourself with other poultry farms and get an average. The power of comparison is meaningful only if the database is fed adequately. Sollio Agriculture is a major player when it comes to poultry input supply: the information collected and saved in the database corresponds to more than 50 million birds per year, allowing us to confirm that the comparison is valid.

Trend and sensitivity analyses

Being able to measure and compare your operations undoubtedly means you will want to analyse them too. What am I doing well? What can I improve?

Agri-advisors’ knowledge definitely comes into play in analyzing and implementing improvement strategies. But AgConnexion │Aviscan offers trend and sensitivity analyses to help you make decisions.

For example, how much additional profit would an improvement of 0.01 conversion points generate? Or, what would be the impact of 0.1% fewer trips to the slaughterhouse? Through sensitivity analysis, you get answers at a glance, and can decide which parameters to work on.

In addition, graphs are configured to clearly illustrate farm trends regarding general technical parameters, such as bird mortality, fatalities, food conversion and weight. Looking over this report with your agri-advisor once a year will allow you to see the progress on your farm and set clear goals that you can work on together.

Flexible territorial comparisons

Aviscan offers unparalleled flexibility for making comparisons. Want to compare yourself to others on a provincial level? That’s easy. Or, prefer to compare yourself to other members of your cooperative? That’s easy, too. What if you raise only roosters and want to compare yourself to others who produce male farm animals? Easy! Whatever sets you apart and characterizes your type of production, you can use it to filter only the lots comparable to yours.

And, since over 50 million birds are entered in the database annually, chances are that you will find parameters for comparison.

New to AgConnexion │ Aviscan

Dealing with real-time data is another challenge in our daily operations. We’ve developed an easy-to-use function that allows farmers, farm managers and agri-advisors to enter daily mortality figures in AgConnexion │ Aviscan.

When the mortality figures entered exceed the established acceptable levels, an alert is automatically sent to designated individuals in less than a minute. This data allows you to implement a quick action plan to address the problem and ensure good performance. It can also be extracted and analyzed via AgConnexion │ Aviscan. The goal is to measure, compare and improve.

Source: This article was originally published in French in the May–June 2021 issue of Coopérateur magazine.