With margins tight in hog industry nutrition plays an even bigger role

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by Harry Siemens
There was a time when raising hogs was almost like walking, just get up and do it. Today, with all the regulations, higher feed costs, and an almost par dollar, raising pork is not for the faint-hearted.

Sask Pork reports, although the cost of producing pork in Canada is among the lowest in the world, Canadian producers lost money in 2010. Many farmers will say 2011 wasn’t much better, despite rising pork and pig prices because the black hole dug in 2009 and 2010 for many just too deep.
InterPig is an international network of swine economists who collect and exchange standardized information on swine production costs and productivity in various countries for comparison.

Mark Ferguson, the manager of Industry and Policy Analysis with the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board and a member of InterPig tells Farmscape.ca swine production costs in Canada last year compared quite favorably with those in competing nations.

More at http://www.siemenssays.com/blog/7117.html
 
 
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