I had a small scale hog operation for about fifteen years. Started out farrow to feeder market and would keep a few back to butcher. Grew my own corn, had my own feed mill, the works. As the arthritis started to take over my life I had to start scaling back. So I sold my sows and boar and started to buy SEW pigs from my cousin. I'd get a small group( 15-20 )of them in April and send them out in October. I sold all of them on the private market so families could fill their freezers with meat. As time went on I could no longer grow my own corn so I rented my small field and used the money to buy corn. Had a good thing going. I sold pigs to the same people every year and would even gain a few customers each year. At first I would sell them at what the market price was, but the market was too volatile and decided to sell at a set price to make a little profit. When corn got to the $7.00+ price one fall I gave the whole thing up. When my customers asked why I quit I told them I could not make money feeding $7.00 corn to pigs. They all said they would have paid extra for the pigs. My hogs were that good. In fact the owner of the locker plant I took the pigs to always wanted to buy any extras I might have. He would even buy them at my set price. He told me that the pigs he bought from me would end up in his retail case. The secret to raising quality pork is to invest in good genetics and mix the feed rations the way the feed store prescribed.
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