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SW MN - mt. lake/windom | I would be willing to bet 20-30 percent of the loads the counts don’t match across the industry. We have seen some counts over and some counts under. Can’t always say that it’s always the packers fault. The cameras are there for the packers benefit they will very seldom use them to recount for the producer. Not many times have I seen counts off that far. We have got correction a couple different times but it needs to be done same day, has nothing to do with camera data collection has all to do with accounting and reconciling inventory daily at the plant, they will not go back and change counts after the fact, that’s admitting fault and they have inventory discrepancies that get corrected daily. The main factor that gave us just cause for correction was that the plant uses a truck scale inbound and our yield factor was significantly off from historical data.
IMO small claims will get you nowhere you have no factual data to state the error was theirs.
For future protocol, best practice would be camera with time stamp at your barn, scale truck as close to barn as possible and scale truck as close to packer as possible with time stamps. Realistically, may not be economically feasible but you will have a stronger case to get correction if you at least have truck weights and can compare past history of live weights to carcass weights.
We ran into a problem with cull sows going to a cull sow buyer and sow weights appeared to be low in comparison to other outlets, after we set protocol to weigh every truck and let the buyer know of our new protocol the issue did not surface again. Moral of the story, in the hog business trust but verify, it is your responsibility to verify to validate inaccuracies of all outgoing (and incoming) products to the farm.
Probably not what you wanted to hear but if by chance you have truck weights, you can take that to your buyer and may get a correction, they still will not correct inventory but will give a misc credit on future load for dollar amount. | |
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Head count discrepancy at packer with hogs
