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<blockquote data-quote="George Monk" data-source="post: 607903" data-attributes="member: 3545"><p>Several years ago I was a 60 sow farrow to finish guy with a full time job. I was there to see the packers swallow each other until the local buying stations could no longer put enough hogs together to sell to the packers. We were trying to put pot loads together ourselves and succeded for awhile. Then they tighten the days that they would take hogs and made it really hard on those of us with outside jobs to sell. I had to get out because I could not sell at a convenient time for our operation. Last weekend I talked to a great friend who was the LAST 60 sow producer in our county and he has given up because they won't buy hogs from small farmers anymore. That will leave only one hog producer in our county .... a small 300 sow operation....I imagine his time is short.</p><p></p><p>I have just recently expanded into cattle thinking maybe this is the last bastion of free agriculture. This news saddens me because this is exactly the tact taken in the hog industry. I see nothing but doom in this message. :cry2:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="George Monk, post: 607903, member: 3545"] Several years ago I was a 60 sow farrow to finish guy with a full time job. I was there to see the packers swallow each other until the local buying stations could no longer put enough hogs together to sell to the packers. We were trying to put pot loads together ourselves and succeded for awhile. Then they tighten the days that they would take hogs and made it really hard on those of us with outside jobs to sell. I had to get out because I could not sell at a convenient time for our operation. Last weekend I talked to a great friend who was the LAST 60 sow producer in our county and he has given up because they won't buy hogs from small farmers anymore. That will leave only one hog producer in our county .... a small 300 sow operation....I imagine his time is short. I have just recently expanded into cattle thinking maybe this is the last bastion of free agriculture. This news saddens me because this is exactly the tact taken in the hog industry. I see nothing but doom in this message. :cry2: [/QUOTE]
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