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Consumption for a flock will be determined by their assigned standards. Despite the most accurate standards, the most up-to-date flock records, and the most attentive plan managers, feed consumption will not reflect what is actually happening in the house. For that reason, we need a way to "course correct" the plan over time. If the flock is not eating enough feed as we had planned, we will need to reduce consumption to allow them to eat any surplus feed and not deliver more. If we are finding that there is less feed left than we had planned the we need to increase consumption for future deliveries to make sure that flocks complete their rations on the planned age, and not before.   See Feed Plan Variance for more information.

Feed Plan Fixed Dates

When feed plan is approved, farm managers will plan operations around expected delivery dates.  There may be logistical and planning reasons which require the feed mill to commit to the agreed upon dates, one such an example provided is when it snows, and farmers have to plan for plowing services to clear the road for scheduled deliveries. Once something like this has to be coordinated, deliveries optimized by flock performance take a lower priority to showing up at a certain times and dates.  

The feed plan fixed date feature will force the regeneration process to lock down specific delivery dates and prioritize creating records with those dates.  See Feed Plan Fixed Dates for more information.