Posted by Kevin Tree on February 18, 2013 at 09:57:01 from (66.245.254.206):
In Reply to: Corporate farms? posted by Dick2 on February 18, 2013 at 06:43:09:
Premium Standard Farms is the big corporate farm in North Missouri The Missouri office is in Princeton, MO
They do pig raising and slaughter house. They say they have 450 big hog farms in the US, 17 million hogs each year. They've got the enormous steel barns sitting around where they raise 10,000 pigs per big shed They're off the main roads, so you might not see them, if you drive thru the area. But you'll see their stock hauling semis on the roads.
They also have grain elevators, and buy corn from local farmers, to feed their pigs
I think they had a role in lowering the price of hogs, I assume so low, that farmers couldn't make any money on them. You never see any smaller farmers raising hogs any more in the area.
The other problems are the smell, for anyone living nearby. Plus, 10,000 pigs put out a lot of sheeit. I'm not sure what they do with it. I've heard of "lagoons" where they may do some treatment. When those overflow in a big rain, that's waaay too much for nature to handle. I think the corporate farm also owns land to spread it on and offers it to farmers.
A friend had a full time job doing artificial insemination for the company. Think about that job!
Just changed their name to "Murphy-Brown of Missouri" Got bought out by Smithfield Foods, so they're the "livestock production subsidiary" of Smithfield.
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