Pig Food/Farming Simulator 19
Pig Food is a type of Material in Farming Simulator 19. Pig Food can be dumped into the feeding trough at a Pig Enclosure to provide the Pigs with a perfect mix of all four food types they require in order to breed at a rate of 80% - the maximum rate given by any food.
Pig Food can be purchased from the Store as the Lizard Pig Food Bigbag, a Pallet which contains exactly 1,000 liters. This pallet costs exactly $1,000. The contents of the pallet can be dumped into the Pig Enclosure just like regular food. Alternatively, it can be loaded directly into a Tipper (without the need for any other loading equipment), stored inside the Tipper, and dumped into the food trough when required. It can also be dumped from a Tipper on the ground to create a Heap of Pig Food, which can then by Shoveled into the Pig Enclosure or back into a Tipper.
When dumped into a feeding trough, Pig Food is instantly converted into its constituent parts: It adds 50% of its volume as Corn, 25% as Grain, 20% as Oilseeds, and 5% as Roots, to be stored in the four different food compartments inside the Enclosure. These proportions are identical to the rates of consumption for each of these food groups.
Coincidentally, the price of Pig Food is almost exactly equivalent to the highest expected market value of its ingredients, which can otherwise only be acquired by growing the relevant crops. Pig Food is therefore a perfectly reasonable and profitable substitute to field-grown Crops.
With just Pig Food, Water, Straw and frequent cleaning, Pigs will breed at the maximum rate of 100%, and require no further effort or materials.
Where to Get Pig Food
There is only one reliable source of Pig Food in the game: The Store. Additionally, you can get a relatively small quantity of Pig Food by occasionally cleaning a Pig Enclosure's food trough. There is no way to create Pig Food on your own from its ingredients.
Buying Pig Food
- Main article: Lizard Pig Food Bigbag (Farming Simulator 19)
The only reliable way to get the large quantities of Pig Food necessary to feed pigs is to buy it at the Store. Pig Food comes in a 1,000 liter Pallet - the Lizard Pig Food Bigbag - which costs exactly $1,000. This gives Pig Food a purchase value of $1 per liter.
Like any other Pallet, Pig Food Bigbags can be loaded onto a flatbed Bale Trailer, or even in the back of your Car. You can transport 24 of these pallets simultaneously (totalling 24,000 liters of Pig Food) on a Fliegl DPW 210. Loading and unloading is typically done with a Loader fitted with a Pallet Fork, though other methods also exist.
A much easier and faster way to transport large quantities of Pig Food is to transfer their contents directly into a Tipper immediately after purchase. A Tipper can "Refill" 
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Collecting Pig Food from the Trough
Every 15 minutes of in-game time, every Pig in every Pig Enclosure that currently has any food to eat will eject a certain amount of Pig Food onto the ground in front of the feeding trough, in the form of a small Heap. This Pig Food can be collected with a Shovel, and either dumped right back into the trough or stored in a suitable Tipper.
The amount of Pig Food ejected by each pig is usually equal to 17.5 liters per day, no matter how much food the Pig actually ate during that day. However, if pigs are fed only on Oilseed crops (Canola, Sunflowers or Soybeans) they will eject only 15.9 liters per pig per day; And if fed only on Root crops (Potatoes or Sugar Beets) they will eject only 3.2 liters per pig per day.
These are very small quantities overall, but they are effectively free Pig Food. The fact that it doesn't really matter how much food the Pigs are eating to generate all this Pig Food means that you could essentially be getting more than 50% of the food back as Pig Food every day, especially if you don't feed your pigs very well to begin with. Of course, keeping the Food Trough clean is helpful anyway, as it increases the pigs' Productivity value (and thus their breeding rate).
Usage
To feed Pig Food to your Pigs, simply take the material to the Pig Enclosure and dump it into their Feeding Trough. If the Pig Food is inside a Bigbag, simply lift the Bigbag with a Loader and Pallet Fork and hold it over the feeding area to spill its contents out. If the Pig Food is in a Tipper, you can unload the Pig Food into the feeding trough just as you would unload into a Silo or Sale Point.
NOTE: Make sure to only add Pig Food when there is room for all four food types in the Enclosure. If one or more of the four food storage bins inside the Pig Enclosure is already full, pouring Pig Food into the trough will waste some of its ingredients!
Effect
- Main article: Pigs (Farming Simulator 19)#Food Groups
Pig Food is a mix of four ingredient materials: Maize, Grains, Oilseeds, and Roots. These are the four Food Groups that pigs can eat. Adding Pig Food to a Pig Enclosure is exactly the same as adding each of these food groups separately, thus providing pigs with all the different kinds of foods they need to breed at the best possible rate.
The proportions between ingredients in Pig Food are as follows:
- Maize: 50%
- Grains: 25%
- Oilseeds: 20%
- Roots: 5%
For example, dumping an entire 1,000 liter Lizard Pig Food Bigbag into a Pig Enclosure adds exactly 500 liters of Maize, 250 liters of Grains, 200 liters of Oilseeds and 50 liters of Roots to the respective storage bins inside the Pig Enclosure.
These proportions are very important: They are the exact proportions between the pigs' consumption rates of each food group. Every day, each pig will try to consume 45 liters of Maize, 22.5 liters of Grains, 18 liters of Oilseeds, and 4.5 liters of Roots - which is exactly 50%, 25%, 20% and 5% of 90 liters per day.
This means that no matter what quantity of Pig Food you give to your pigs, they will consume all four of its ingredient materials without any leftovers, and will be considered to be eating all four food groups throughout the entire time.
Productivity
Since Pig Food consists of all four food groups that pigs like to eat, feeding your pigs on Pig Food means that they will get the best possible Productivity rate from their food -- exactly 80%. An additional 10% Productivity can be achieved by providing your pigs with Straw, and another 10% from keeping their feeding area clean (which incidentally adds more Pig Food, as explained above.
Productivity directly affects the pigs' Breeding Rate, which is what you are trying to maximize with any Pig Husbandry work. Thus, at 100% Productivity, your pigs will breed at the maximum possible rate.
The same productivity rate can be achieved by growing four different crops (one from each Food Group) and feeding them to your pigs. Pig Food saves you all that hard work.
Pig Food vs. Crops
Pig Food is an alternative to growing crops and feeding them separately to your pigs. You achieve the same effect with 1,000 liters of Pig Food as you would for giving them 500 liters of Corn, 250 liters of Barley, 200 liters of Canola, and 50 liters of Sugar Beets (or any other of the crops that can replace these). By using Pig Food, you save a lot of effort on growing and transporting crops, but must instead pay hard cash for the Pig Food itself.
Surprisingly, this option is actually extremely competitive from a financial standpoint. The price of a 1,000 liter Lizard Pig Food Bigbag ($1,000) is almost identical to the expected highest market value of 500 liters of Corn, 250 liters of Barley, 200 liters of Canola, and 50 liters of Sugar Beets. Therefore, Pig Food is essentially worth the same value as its constituent parts.
Furthermore, the Maintenance costs for operating field machinery is gone when all you need is a Tipper to take the Pig Food from the Store to the Pig Enclosure. Since this is also a single trip, you save a little bit on Fuel as well. These extra savings can result in Pig Food becoming the most profitable way to feed you pigs.
NOTE: This calculation assumes that you normally wait for crops market prices to reach their expected highest value before selling any crops. This is equal to about 1.35 times the average price of each crop (e.g. $905 for Corn, on "Normal" economic difficulty). If you do not pay as much attention to prices when selling crops, then their value is effectively lower for you, and thus Pig Food becomes more expensive than the crops themselves (since its price is fixed). In this case, Pig Food may actually become less profitable - but is still easier to handle than crops.