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<blockquote data-quote="KMacGinley" data-source="post: 301618" data-attributes="member: 3175"><p>Regulations? Nobody regulated my cousin out of the hog business. Sows in the woods with them being brought to the barn for farrowing in a crate doesn't create much of a biohazard. What drove my cousin out was 8 cent hogs.</p><p> </p><p> The crash of 98 occurred in hog prices due to several big boys flooding the market with hogs and the North American Free Trade agreement with hogs flooding in from Canada. </p><p></p><p> Using Smithfield as an example, when you are vertically integrated and selling factory raised hogs under your own brand name at the supermarket, you don't really care about the live price now do you? The remaining small time hog producers in my area were killed off by 8 cent hogs in what I feel was a deliberate attempt to destroy the competition. </p><p></p><p> As far as price goes, Less efficient, but more humane methods of raising hogs would have a positive effect on price: Not for the consumer, but for the producer. I am sick to death of hearing Farm Bureau and the like along with all the land grant Universities bragging about how cheap food is. It is time that the American consumer paid a fair price for food. The price of inputs is not cheap, but we are somehow expected to make do with the same price for products as we got 30 years ago. Priced a new Tractor or combine lately?</p><p></p><p> The capper for me was when the head honcho of the Indiana Beef producers in an editorial in the magazine stated that cattle prices were <strong>too high </strong> . Who do you think that he was working for? The producers or the Packers? </p><p></p><p> I think that it is time for american agriculture to get over the "We feed the world" mindset and start looking out for ourselves. <strong>We</strong> have paid the price for the government's cheap food policy long enough. Maybe consumers would have less money to spend on gameboys and toyotas and spend more of their money here at home for food. Maybe young people could get a start in livestock production on a smaller scale and support a family again. Maybe smaller towns would come back across this country. </p><p></p><p> A good place to start would be the elimination of confinement livestock production nationwide. If the price of pork and poultry were increased across america, through less efficient production methods, that would make beef all that more attractive for the consumer; that is if we can stop the free traders from dumping in foreign beef on us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KMacGinley, post: 301618, member: 3175"] Regulations? Nobody regulated my cousin out of the hog business. Sows in the woods with them being brought to the barn for farrowing in a crate doesn't create much of a biohazard. What drove my cousin out was 8 cent hogs. The crash of 98 occurred in hog prices due to several big boys flooding the market with hogs and the North American Free Trade agreement with hogs flooding in from Canada. Using Smithfield as an example, when you are vertically integrated and selling factory raised hogs under your own brand name at the supermarket, you don't really care about the live price now do you? The remaining small time hog producers in my area were killed off by 8 cent hogs in what I feel was a deliberate attempt to destroy the competition. As far as price goes, Less efficient, but more humane methods of raising hogs would have a positive effect on price: Not for the consumer, but for the producer. I am sick to death of hearing Farm Bureau and the like along with all the land grant Universities bragging about how cheap food is. It is time that the American consumer paid a fair price for food. The price of inputs is not cheap, but we are somehow expected to make do with the same price for products as we got 30 years ago. Priced a new Tractor or combine lately? The capper for me was when the head honcho of the Indiana Beef producers in an editorial in the magazine stated that cattle prices were [b]too high [/b] . Who do you think that he was working for? The producers or the Packers? I think that it is time for american agriculture to get over the "We feed the world" mindset and start looking out for ourselves. [b]We[/b] have paid the price for the government's cheap food policy long enough. Maybe consumers would have less money to spend on gameboys and toyotas and spend more of their money here at home for food. Maybe young people could get a start in livestock production on a smaller scale and support a family again. Maybe smaller towns would come back across this country. A good place to start would be the elimination of confinement livestock production nationwide. If the price of pork and poultry were increased across america, through less efficient production methods, that would make beef all that more attractive for the consumer; that is if we can stop the free traders from dumping in foreign beef on us. [/QUOTE]
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