Design of information management system for pig farms

This paper presents a farm information management system. The system consists of following six modules: user information, farm and pig information, feed management, environmental monitoring, disease diagnosis and sales management. The user information management module of the system can realize the functions of user registration, update registration, login and logout. The farm information management module realizes add, delete, and query pig basic information, to meet the requirement of real-time query about the number of pig into the bar and out. Feed information management module can query feed brand, price, purchase quantity and residual quantity. Farm environment directly affects the growth and health of pigs. The environmental monitoring module can monitor six factors that affect the growth of pigs: temperature, humidity, NH3, SO2, CO2 and light intensity. Disease diagnosis module can record and query disease symptoms, diagnostic message and medication information of pigs. According to different pig-farms disease information this module can support dynamic aggregation of disease information. It can also early warn and remind users according to the disease scale. Sales management module can record and query market weight, sales price, backfat thickness, quarantine information of the pigs, etc. This system realizes the dynamic summary, query and management of all information that from the pig into the bar to out and farm-related information. It can realize automated management of pig farms, which improves the management efficiency and reduces the cost of breeding pig farmers. Thus this system has important practical value. ©, 2014, Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering. All right reserved.