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Dan T in MO

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Hopefully the pic comes through.

I grew up raising hogs. Now that I'm back on the family farm, I figure I'll try to make a go of it. We got out because a BFO cornered the market back in the late 80s and drove hog prices down to almost nothing. Hoping to stay independent and fly just under the BFO radar but still keep the bills paid.
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Not to burst your bubble but at current gran prices I just don't see how you are going to make it pay.

Rick
 
With the price of corn as of yesterday you have a big help! I had been doing half corn and half wheat in the grinder but the last few batches have been all corn.
 
I got a small field planted in corn and another patch in squash and watermelon. Both fields amount to more than I can eat myself. Also, I have a nephew-in-law that is the executive chef at a fancy restaurant. I think I might be able to convince him to convince his crew to throw scraps in my trailer instead of in the dumpster.
 
Gary, Why is that the law? I am not familiar with it, but usually interested to learn something new.
 
(quoted from post at 11:42:53 07/10/13) You do know it is not allowed to feed food scraps to hogs?

Gary
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Gary, I've always heard or thought food scraps could be fed to hogs as long as the scraps were cooked long enough to kill Brucellosis and other infectious diseases. We been out of the hog business for over 20 years so I may be wrong.
 
Dan, based upon your photos, you should do just fine with your hog venture. Ia GAry is correct in that feeding of food scraps to hogs is illegal. I'd certainly not broadcast to the world that I was doing it. Your photos don't indicate that you are "going commercial" so your investment looks minimal. I had an old (very wealthy) hog man tell me one time, "I don't want anything in the way of hog buildings that take more than 5 minutes to burn down". He was one of the bet hog guys I ever knew.
 
I'm guessing it depends where you are. They feed french fry 2nd's
to animals here from the potato processors. Worked at a fruit
warehouse for a while where all the unmarketable veggies and fruit
went to a large farm up the road.

I guess you don't see food scraped from plates going to commercial
growers but waste food before it reaches the consumer does.
 
I think the difference those are not food scraps leaving a restraunt. Resers sells their scraps to both hog and cattle feeders - but their "scraps" have not been through a kitchen where it can pick up something extra along the way.
 
(quoted from post at 04:42:53 07/10/13) You do know it is not allowed to feed food scraps to hogs?
Gary
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There is a famous-name candy company plant here that disposed of all the chocolate that didn't make the cut by giving or selling (probably the latter :x) it to local hog farmers - don't know if they still are as there aren't too many people raising hogs around here lately
 
I don't claim any knowledge about raising hogs, but I did see an interesting set up on TV one time.

"Larry the Cable Guy", on his show, "Made in America" (I think, seriously, stop laughing), was going around to a bunch of restaurants with a guy in MN picking up food scraps. This guy had rigged his truck so he could hook it up to a boiler and cook the scraps right in the truck. He would then feed them to the hogs. Surely, "Larry the Cable Guy" is a reliable source?

Again, no real knowledge here, just something I saw on TV.
 
GAry,, who has a law about food scraps and hogs ,, I keep a few hogs in the barn ,, they will be meat soon , will follow same plan I have for serveral years will clean the barn , then stuff this area with quality round bales to keep weather from getting them ,, come mid November ,, the bales will come out ,, and cows will have winter shelter ,,, around mid march , pen cows out and bring in pigs on small end,, the cows will still have shelter till may ,, at which time the hogs will want more space ,, the hogs do real good following hayed cows ,, they root down to concrete floor and scavage goodies out of cow waste and stay cool too ...
 
I've heard of such. I haven't seen it mentioned in the literature I got from the National Pork Board, but I'll look through it all again. For now, the scraps are strictly for those we plan on eating ourselves. The market hogs will get grain fed. Oh, and there's about 19 acres of oak, hickory and walnut forest on the property I can harvest from.
 
In our area there are a couple bakery outlets. You know they sell through local stores and then take back the day old stuff. You can buy it at discounted prices and it makes great feed. Grain is grain no matter what form it takes right?
 
All of our inedible egg waste & DAF float goes to a milling company that uses it in hog rations. I don't know how well they process it before feeding it. Of course there are rendering companies that process restaurant grease, animal and bakery waste in to animal food, but they cook it and test for salmonella and pesticide residue
 
(quoted from post at 11:31:31 07/10/13) I don't claim any knowledge about raising hogs, but I did see an interesting set up on TV one time.

"Larry the Cable Guy", on his show, "Made in America" (I think, seriously, stop laughing), was going around to a bunch of restaurants with a guy in MN picking up food scraps. This guy had rigged his truck so he could hook it up to a boiler and cook the scraps right in the truck. He would then feed them to the hogs. Surely, "Larry the Cable Guy" is a reliable source?

Again, no real knowledge here, just something I saw on TV.
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Dirty Jobs had an episode about that as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DEsznNfpCU They feed 3,000 pigs on that slop....
 
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