Posted by KEH on June 20, 2014 at 16:57:09 from (67.231.175.190):
In Reply to: Re: The meat racket posted by IaGary on June 20, 2014 at 15:34:38:
Gary, the author may have mentioned NC but most of the discusion of hogs concerned IA. Point was made that IA has the good soil and the corn so feed lots locate there and so processors locate there.
The material on chickens came mostly from AR. One example cited had a man driven into bankruptcy and then his facilities sold to a Laotian immigrant, who was later driven under also. I understand vertical integration, but I don't understand a business model that drives out willing workers who have invested their own money. Years ago when chicken farming became popular in this part of the country it was soon pointed out that a person was lucky to stay in business long enough to get his facilities paid off. There have been numerous abandoned chicken houses in this area(also abandoned small dairy barns). Some of the chicken houses were not small.
#2 on the manure rights. Local turkey house gets some extra money selling the manure, I've bought some. There is also an egg producer that sells the manure and I am using it also.
Large scale poultry production started a long time ago. About 1950 my parents decided they could buy chicken and eggs cheaper than raiseing them in the yard. The quality of the store chicken was not as good. My father referred to the store chicken as "them old embalmed chickens" and he was right.
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