The Pipestone System - Helping farmers today create the farms of tomorrow

Take a virtual journey with Sharon Jacobson of Pipestone System as your tour guide. Open our Web site www.pipestonesystem.com and follow your next group of pigs from mom’s side to your nursery-finisher.

Online reports are easy to view, but, more importantly, soon this will be the only way to view your reports. Sharon hopes every shareholder will get accustomed to the online system before the changeover.

“Once a shareholder is on the Web site home page, the Shareholder Login is easily visible in the upper right,” Sharon says. “Click there and enter your username and password.”

(Don’t have your username and password? Call Pipestone Vet Clinic or email Sharon at sjacobson@pipevet.com.)

“Once you’re logged in, you’ll see the name of your sow farm,” Sharon continues. “If you have shares in more than one farm, you’ll be able to use the Select Farm drop-down in the upper right.”

Below your sow-farm name, you’ll see two familiar schedules—now in digital form. There’s the weaning plan for your sow barn and the traffic schedule right below it.

The weaning schedule projects approximately eight weeks out, Sharon explains. Look for your name and note the planned ship date for your pigs.

If you’re wondering about the HCR checkbox on the far right, that tells the Pipestone System office staff whether they should be generating health papers for that group of pigs prior to movement.

Consult the schedule
Barn managers update the wean schedule as actual weaning occurs. Once your barn’s manager notes a change, your name and your pigs reappear on the traffic schedule.

If you’re planning today’s workload, the traffic schedule is your easy point of reference. But let’s suppose you don’t have pigs arriving today, so you have time to review performance reports for your sow barn.

“Back at the top of the Web page, right next to Schedules you’ll see Documents,” Sharon says, continuing the tour. “Click there and you’ll be shown a little file folder with this title: Pipestone System Documents. Tap the plus sign (+) with your cursor and you’ll see Farms. Now tap the plus sign again and you’ll be able to click on your farm.”

Once you click the plus sign next to your farm’s name, you’ll reveal folders labeled by quarter. Click those folders and you will find documents related to your farm—quarterly financial reports, production reports, and a record of the most recent visit from one of our veterinarians. Just click the little red PDF symbol to open a document.

“I’ll also post meeting information packets in Documents for a particular quarter,” Sharon adds.

Anytime she adds information for your sow farm, Sharon will send an email alerting you to visit the Web site. Once she stops mailing paper reports, that will be your only source for schedules and reports.

But don’t worry. Once you get used to tapping information online you’ll discover it’s easy!

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