| td1 - 1/25/2024 20:49 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.
We know how many we load, every load except the last load out of a barn has the same number on the trailer with compartments being filled with the same corresponding head every time. We count them and the trucker counts them.
Once in a while we have a load that is off 1-2 head, the plants that we deliver to will recount using the video IF pushed hard enough to do so.
But the issue needs to be brought up the same day, preferably by the trucker before the empty truck pulls away from the chute.
As for the disappearing tattoos, that happens all the time. Its not that the tattoo disappears, its that the guy reads the tattoo # and types it into the computer as the shackles go by quite possibly has the most boring job on earth and occasionally falls asleep. Its not uncommon to have a few head that get paid on the load avg on every single load because of missing tattoo numbers.
A packing plant is a pretty interesting thing to tour if you ever get the chance to do so, esp if you have the opportunity to tour it while its running.
Edited by Kooiker 1/25/2024 22:25
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Head count discrepancy at packer with hogs
