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Cash-traded feeder pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 2,500 head reported. Cash weaner pig reported prices were $42.78, down $0.88 per head from last week.
Dan Tindall, an Akron, Iowa, farmer, loaded his 32 head of 65-pound pigs into a trailer and got ready to leave one last time. The auction was just part of the hog business for him.
Rearing 26 pigs a sow a year at 11.8 pigs a litter How the farm uses it Creep feeders are filled up with creep when piglets are 21 days old, and they are weaned at 28 days.
The Sprintomat feeder from Suffolk firm GE Baker Quality Equipment is a free-standing unit that is designed to allow pigs to achieve good growth at the critical stage from weaning at 7kg to 30kg ...
Hemlock Lane Farm LP, owned by Robert, Darren and Randy Brubaker, plans to construct an approximately 40,581-square-foot facility to handle 4,800 feeder pigs, which will be finished as fat hogs ...
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures eased and feeder cattle futures ticked up on Monday, as corn prices faced a choppy trading day at the start of this holiday-shortened week, traders ...
Dairy cattle showmanship begins 9 a.m. Wednesday, with the breeding and market shows coming right after during the 2024 Marion County Fair.