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At PigCHAMP, we strive to provide state of the art products that fit our customers’ needs through ongoing maintenance and development. 

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Below is a list of new features and enhancements for Version 10.7.0:

A Fresh, Modern PigCHAMP Experience: Introduces a refreshed user experience that brings a cleaner look, improved usability, and a more intuitive workflow to your day-to-day operations. Every update was designed with you in mind—making it easier to navigate, enter data, and analyze information with confidence. This is more than just a visual update—it’s about helping you work faster and smarter. With a more modern interface and simplified workflows, PigCHAMP now delivers smoother, more efficient experience from login to reporting.

  • More Intuitive Login Experience: Getting started is faster and more user-friendly with enhancements like a “show password” option, reducing errors and simplifying access.
  • Flexible, Streamlined Navigation: Menus and screens have been redesigned to adapt to how you work. Collapse, pin, or expand sections to create a personalized workspace that keeps your most important tools within reach.
  • Modernized User Management:Updated user management screens provide a more intuitive layout, making it easier to manage roles, permissions, and access across your organization.
  • Cleaner, More Readable Reports:Reports now follow modern formatting standards, improving font consistency, alignment, and overall readability—so insights are easier to find and act on.

Expanded Boar Management Events: To support growing demand for genetic improvement and integrated data workflows, introducing enhanced tools for managing boars across your operation.You gain greater control, traceability, and efficiency in managing boar genetics and reproductive readiness.

  • Boar Retained: Capture incoming boars for genetic programs, including training and non-viable collection tracking before herd entry. All training collections are marked as non-viable until the boar is officially made available.
  • Boar Made Available: Transition boars into active reproductive use with efficient batch entry
  • Boar Transfer: Easily move boars between farms or external locations with streamlined tracking
  • Transfer from Grow-Finish – Seamlessly move eligible animals into reproductive herds with full identity and lineage details

Enhanced Reports Featuring New Boar Data: Your reporting tools now fully reflect the expanded boar functionality, giving you deeper insight into genetic and reproductive performance. Make more confident breeding and management decisions with complete, integrated data.

  • Breeding Recommendations: Now includes boar selection guidance based on inbreeding coefficients—up to four generations, helping you identify which boars to use or avoid for matings.
  • Data Entry Trace List: New sections have been added to track events such as Boar Retained, Boar Transfers (On/Off), and Semen Collection within a defined reporting period.
  • Breeder Herd Census: Includes new boar status Unworked, Training, Available, and Working, giving you a clearer picture of your boar inventory and readiness.
  • Additional Reports: Boar data added across performance, inventory, cull and shipment reports.

Age at Foster Logic Available in Piglet Fostering Events: Building on the Nurse Sow Wean event and based on client feedback, PigCHAMP now includes age-at-event tracking within Piglet Fostering. Giving you better visibility into piglet performance and health trends tied to age and movement.

  • Record piglet age during fostering events
  • Will automatically calculate age during Foster Off
  • Analyze age data across key reports (Piglet Loss analysis, Sow History, Data Entry Trace List) and updated performance variables.
    1. Average Age of Piglet Loss
    2. Average Piglet Age
    3. Average Piglet Age at Weaning

Gestation Validation Preferences – Customizable Alerts for Farrowing Accuracy: You now control how strictly gestation timelines are enforced. Balance flexibility with data integrity based on your operation’s needs.

  • Warning Mode: Flag inconsistencies while allowing entry
  • Error Mode: The system will prevent the farrowing event from being recorded until the issue is resolved.

Seamless Transfer from Grow-Finish to Reproductive: Powerful new capability that bridges the gap between Grow-Finish and Reproductive operations, giving you a more connected and streamlined way to manage animal movement and genetic progression.You can now transfer and receive boars and gilts directly from Grow-Finish into your Reproductive herd—while automatically capturing all critical identity and performance details in one step.

One streamlined process replaces multiple steps—helping you move animals (and information) forward with confidence.

Data Captured: Tattoo, Transponder ID, Sex, Genetics and Cohort information

Built-in efficiencies:

  • Automatic population of birth date, average weight, and cost
  • Eliminates duplicate entry and reduces manual errors

Advanced lineage tracking (with Progeny Type module):

  • Automatically links incoming animals to their Dam and Sire
  • Ensures complete and accurate genetic traceability

Streamlined Receive Shipment & Placement Events: For our Grow-Finish clients managing pig movement is now faster and simpler with a combined receive + placement workflow. Reduces data entry time and improved placement accuracy.

  •  Single Event Workflow: Receive pigs and place them into a cohort simultaneously—no need to record placements separately.
  •  Flexible Load Management: Select from existing wean/transfer shipments or create new loads directly from the data entry screen.
  •  Multi-Location Placement: A single load can now be distributed across multiple Nursery and/or Finisher locations within the farm.
  •  Detailed Load Configuration: Enter specific details about each load, including pig characteristics and placement data for each selected location.

Improved Error Log File Naming: Error log files now automatically include the farm name, making them easier to identify, especially for multi-farm operations. Faster troubleshooting, better organization, and less time tracking down issues.

Applies to:

  •  Farm Data Files (*.PCDF)
  •  Pig History
  •  Batch Data Entry (Sow/Boar)
  •  Semen Batch Import
  •  Feed Delivery
  •  Packer Data File
  •  Shipment Data File
  •  Individual Piglet
  • And Custom Imports

Data Compatibility for Mobile & API Integration: To support mobile apps and upcoming API capabilities, updates have been made to data structure and validation. Correcting your database ensures a smooth transition to mobile and connected systems without data issues. A built-in Maintenance Tool helps quickly identify and correct affected records across all or individual farms.

Certain special characters are no longer supported in identities, lookup items (LIM), service groups and other text type fields.

Important: This update must be completed before using the Mobile App or any future API-based features to avoid data compatibility issues

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Smarter, More Powerful Reporting: A significantly enhanced reporting experience. Designed to give you more flexibility, deeper visibility, and faster access to actionable data. Whether you're analyzing reproductive performance or tracking grow-finish results, reporting is now more interactive, customizable, and insight-driven than ever before.

Enhanced Report Access with New Tabs: Reporting now goes beyond static outputs. With new tools and expanded functionality, you can explore, adjust, and export your data more efficiently—without starting over. Spend less time rerunning reports and more time interacting with your data to uncover insights.  After running a report from the Report Queue, you now have access to new viewing options:

  •  Properties Tab: Adjust report parameters in real time – no need to rerun the report to refine your results.
  •  Report Tab: View the full report, apply filters, and drill into historical data for deeper analysis.
  •  Trace List Tab (New): Access the underlying, record-level data used to generate report results – ideal for validation, auditing, and troubleshooting.
  •  Summary Data Tab (New): View report outputs in a structured, export-ready format designed for Excel (CSV), making it easy to share and analyze externally.
  Expanded Traceability & Export Capabilities:  Two of PigCHAMP’ s most valued tools – Trace List and Summary Data are now available across more reports, especially within the Grow-Finish module.
  • Export both raw (Trace List) and formatted (Summary Data) datasets directly to Excel-friendly CSV files.
  • Access deeper levels of detail across key performance reports.
  •  Improve collaboration by sharing clean, structed datasets.

Newly Enhanced Reports Include: These additions make it easier to analyze, share, and act on your data—whether you're tracking performance, costs, or animal movements.

  •  Closeout Analysis (By Cohort, Location & Period): Includes totals, averages, and target comparisons for a complete performance view.
  •  Cohort Genealogy Report: Trace all source locations contributing pigs to a cohort.
  •  Cohort Summary Report: Summarizes cohort performance by individual locations.
  •  Expenses by Period: Compare actual vs. targets expenses for stronger financial oversight.
  •  Repeat Service Analysis: Includes repeat parity breakdowns for deeper reproductive insight.
  •  Culls and Death List: Now includes individual lifetime non-productive day (NPD) breakdown.
  • Death Loss Chart: Enhanced visualization with additional filters such as day-of-week analysis.

Performance Targets Built into Your Summary Data: Tracking goals just got easier. You can now include target values directly within Summary Data for both on-screen viewing and CSV (Excel) exports. A clearer picture of how your operation is performing against expectations—at a glance.

Available In:  Performance Trend Analysis and  Production Summary

  • View actual performance, averages, and targets side-by-side
  •  Export target-inclusive data for further analysis
  •  Quickly identify gaps and opportunities

More Flexible, Customizable Report Views: Gives you greater control over how your reports are structured and displayed. Tailor reports to match your workflow—whether you're reviewing data in the office or sharing it with your team.

  • Single-Column Display Option
    •  Convert list-style reports into a simplified, vertical format
    • Ideal for readability, printing, or specific export needs 
  • Mating List – Flexible Grouping
    •  Disable default grouping for a flat data view
    • Customize grouping by parity, sow ID, or other fields
  •  Pregnancy Check List Enhancements
    • Exclude aborted sows
    • Option to exclude sows marked for culling

Enhanced Reproductive Loss Analysis: One of your most valuable analysis tools just got stronger. Now it includes both first and repeat services, giving you a more complete view of reproductive performance. Pinpoint reproductive inefficiencies faster and make more informed decision-making for your herd.

New Insights Include:

  •  Flexible grouping by parity, lactation history, semen age, and service intervals
  •  Analysis based on age or weight at first service
  •  Visibility into impact on:

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