Posted by HoosierHog on January 11, 2012 at 18:30:40 from (69.130.186.216):
In Reply to: Growing grain....LONG posted by ChrisinMO on January 11, 2012 at 10:15:19:
well I guess i don't understand why you cant make money buying feed i feed 20 feeders a year in 2 batches of ten each hog gets roughly 750lbs of feed cost 180$ to feed and i sell 260lbs hogs for $1.5 lbs live weight then the customer pay the processor. I'm working with a local co-op try to make a deal they own the processing facility and have well established markets 3 local organic groceries and several high end restraunts plus they have a CSA and a butcher shop the will pay me 80% of what they sell it for and minimum is $4 a pound by the cut so a dressed hog 145 hanging weight times $4 is $580 and i get %80 and that is $464 and i have 230 in each hog. yes i feed non gmo and no soy they get a organic protien supplement and i feed some alfalfa. also this year i'm experimenting with fodder beets aka mangals its a large beet that is nutrient packed and has incredible yeilds per acre they have been a major crop in england for feeding animals for hundreds of years. what are your inputs. i've never raised hogs any other way and with only 10acres to play with i don't have many options. Now as to raising corn i rotate a 6 acre (my only rented field) alfalfa field plowing one acre every year for corn and applying all the manure i can get and planting with liquid fertalizer (fish emulsion and compost tea) and i cultivate with a 4 row cultivator and the first few years my yields were 80s ish now im getting 150 and with organic corn at 10ish a bushel on acre does awsome with the only inputs being fuel and seed price and the cost of the fish emulsion.
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