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South Central Iowa | Yes, they would in my particular example. But this isn't a proposal or what I would want necessarily, just something I see that could emerge; a movement to make all animals "free-range".
In my particular example, I kind of imagined the finisher stage would still be performed in a confinement. The farrowing, weaning, and feeder/grower stages would be performed on farm in this free-range scenario.
I don't think it would save family farms either. I kind of looked at numbers and maybe what I wrote below would interest you. There's a lot of superficiality and spitballing to it, but I don't think it would provide for as much expansion as it might initially appear, though it might yield those remaining farm families better returns than the contract hog barns do currently; perhaps double? | |
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Abstract: What if there were no Hog Confinements?
