Posted by dhermesc on May 20, 2015 at 08:35:18 from (24.248.193.103):
In Reply to: Pigs per acre posted by Bkpigs on May 19, 2015 at 20:25:00:
Never did try to "pasture" hogs. Several times we would put up an electric fence around a brushy area (acre or two at a time) and would turn loose 20-25 sows to clean it out between farrowing. They would kill the trees and root them out of the ground. After a couple years an area that had been so rank you couldn't walk through would be as barren as moon scape. Move the sows on to the next area and push in the wallows. Run over the "cleaned" area with a disk and sow it to grass - be ready to keep mowing because the soil would be rich from all the manure. Beat paying a dozer to do the same work. Land is probably too valuable to use a method that slow today - especially if you had more than a few acres to clean up.
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