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| That's a good point as well. With some of those companies the specs/rules for buildings make them look like show places except they still smell.
The large hog corps have a business model that can be followed by about anybody - one sow/weaner guy and several growers - risk could be split up about any way you'd want to do - sow guy contract with growers, sow guy and growers own the whole works, etc. Wean to finish has taken a lot of the labor requirement out for growing pigs - no more several stages of nursery, etc. and it works good enough (actually pretty good). Labor is still pretty intense at the sow centers and it's the engine and without G stalls it might get even more intense. Anyway, it's not like the large guys have a model that doesn't work like some of the "grainfarmers of the future now in BK". It works on a pretty small scale and you get the advantages of not needing a unit train of corn and can run around looking for bargains. Of course on any scale it's still pigs so there are always problems. | |
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thoughts on corporate factory hog confinments
