Live Webinar 1: Planning a Profitable Piggery

Description

A practical 3-hour live webinar presented from real experience on a 120-sow farm. From first idea to first income: the decisions that make or break a new pig business.

What we’ll cover

• Why pigs, and why you: motivation, part-time vs full-time, and choosing your market
• The numbers that decide profit: feed costs, litters per sow per year, and why bacon weight pays
• The cash-flow gap before your first income, and how to plan for it
• Building in the right order: how phased building gets you income sooner
• Pen, farrowing and weaner designs that save piglets, labour and money
• Choosing your first gilts and boars
• Biosecurity from day one: keeping out ASF and foot-and-mouth
• What a bank wants to see in your business plan
• Your 10-step start-up checklist

Presenter: Jacobus Minnaar, 36+ years in commercial pig farming, BSc Agric (Hons), runs his own 120-sow farrow-to-finish unit.

Format: 3-hour live webinar on Google Meet, with two short breaks and a Q&A session at the end.

Date & time: Saturday 31 October 2026, 15:00–18:00 (SAST, GMT+2)

How you join: After payment, your Google Meet link is included in your order confirmation email.