Posted by fixerupper on June 20, 2014 at 11:38:46 from (100.42.82.100):
In Reply to: The meat racket posted by KEH on June 20, 2014 at 06:48:33:
In my neck of the woods here on the plains of Northwest Iowa we have both farmer owned hog confinements and company owned, and we have a bunch of them. The company owned facilities tend to be the most modern the best maintained and arranged better for truck maneuverability. We haven't seen any new private facilities built for maybe ten years or so. The hog companies will buy ten acres from a land owner to build their 4000 head facility on with the land owner getting the manure rights. The turkey feeding facilities tend to be privately owned with the birds owned by a local processing facility. I live in an area that has both hog and turkey facilities and I don't hear anything bad spoken about either the hog or the turkey companies that own the livestock. The manure rights is a big plus for the land owners and the feed facilities bid up well for corn so it's pretty much a winning situation for the ag economy.
We have practically no small livestock farmers. A lot of the younger to middle aged farmers manage livestock buildings for a wage. The ones managing the 4000 head hog facilities spend a few minutes to maybe an hour doing chores every morning and night if the hogs are healthy and that's about it. The downfall is loading out fats in the wee hours of the morning. The turkey guys have to spend a lot more time taking care of the birds than the hog guys do but owning turkey buildings seems to be more lucrative.
With all of the livestock facilities we now have locally, the livestock trucking industry has grown and is staying busy, the feed haulers are doing well at making a living and the local power company has been updating the power distribution to make it more reliable since the confinements and feed facilities are so dependent on electricity. Downfall is the aromatics in the air during the spring and fall manure hauling season.
The independent farmers who contract feed for awhile and then are left high and dry are the ones with older, less efficient facilities that produce slower gains and more death loss. Jim
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