date:Jun 08, 2012
ow do we expand when corn and soybean prices were going up? says Kati Hagenbuch, a hog farmer from Utica, Illinois, who with husband John recently doubled capacity and switched from farrow-to-finish to contract feeding.
The timing of any herd expansion is arguably the difference between making it work and losing money right now, says Purdue University Extension livestock economist Chris Hurt. You don't necessarily want to follow the pack and grow when everyone else does, because that lessens yo