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SW MN Fulda | Hey everyone! I'm looking to get some good honest numbers and opinions on my situation..... Location is SW MN...I'm in the process of getting approved to put up a 2400 hd double wide tunnel barn this year and i'm going through the FSA young farmer program to help out on the low interest side of things and stretch the term out to 15 years.... I'm doing a little different type of barn though, a liquid feed barn. So there are multiple differences between liquid and dry fed pigs and wondering if anyone out there has experience with the liquid fed pigs? I've been taking care of 4000 for the past 2 years and really like the system and also the higher manure value in nutrients along with about 40% more manure. The manure value before paying application is about $80,000. Putting on 2500 gal/ acre and can fertilize 750 acres a year. Nutrient analysis is 67(TKN)-67-50/ 1000gal along with 13# sulfur and .28#zinc. Hogs do tremendously well on the liquid feed too, which saves about $30/pig in feed costs.....Anywho... there are not very many liquid fed pigs in the area so its going to be hard for the appraisal value to actually match up with the barn like they do for dry barns. Barn is bid at $365/space right now.
Looking for good numbers on cost of operation numbers that people are seeing. would be feeder to finish. 45#-330# weights. The barns I take care of are curtain barns so not very good comparison for what i'm looking for. So any numbers that might help are appreciated.
Going to be a scale barn with a race track design. 10 ft deep pit (tried going for a 12' pit to make it a year but thats to costly). Lange Ag is who i'm going through for the project.
Also going to start another thread on putting up a hog barn vs cattle confinement too so be sure to find that thread and help me out on there too if you have any knowledge or preference between hogs or cattle confinements..
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hog barn help needed
