Pork Meet
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47 to 49 percent gets "3”, and anything lower gets a “4”.
These percentages are actually dressing percentages,
Sparlin commented, and include the ham, loin, shoulder,
picnic and Boston butt, but not the sides. Muscling Quality is
also judged on a sliding A-B-C-D scale.
Hogmen who want to market through PFA must contact
Sparlin two days ahead of time, to tell him they’ve got a load
of grade and yield hogs. The packer figures his price on the
average of the prices paid in Peoria, Chicago and St. Louis
the day before the hogs are delivered. If the hogs grade high,
the producer gets a bonus.
Mark NesUeroth, a Manheim hog breeder, told the group
he sells all his market animals on a grade and yield basis. “I
do it because I get more money,” he said. “My hogs grade 85
to 90 percent 81. I like grade and yield because it helps me
know what kind of hogs I’m sending to the packer.”
Sparlin emphasized Nestleroth’s comments, saying that
the industry had to make improvements in every area of hog
marketing and growing.
Also on the program was an explanation of hog contracting
by Paul Gehman of Gehman’s Feed Mill in Denver. Gehman
told the group that his company is the largest hog contracting
firm in the area, with some 9000 animals out on feed. Con
tractees get a $2 guarantee on all marketable hogs plus at
least 50 percent of the profit, Gehman said. They favor
farmers with environmentally controlled buddings, and don’t
like operations where some hogs are contracted and some
are owned by the farmer.
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“That doesn’t work too well, we’ve found,’’ Gehman said.
“Disease is a problem, and there’s always a chance that
some of our feed is going to find its way into the farmer’s own
pi|s.”
One of Gehman’s farmers, Monroe Good, was at the
meeting to tell why he liked the idea of contracting. “I’m
basically a dairyman,” he told the group. “Hogs are a
secondary income for me. I like contracting because it gives
me a little insurance. I know I’m going to make some money,
at least. It saves me time, too, because I don’t have to hunt
the feeder pigs to fill up my pens. And I don’t have to borrow
money at 8 percent to pay for my pigs and feed.”
Gehman told the farmers that their contractees paid the
same price for feed that other farmers paid. The only dif
ference in feed prices was that a quantity discount was not
given to contractees.
On the subject of the hog market in the next six months,
Sparlin said pork producers would have to contend with the
high cost of feed in the coming months, and big question
marks in the cattle market. Another big question, he noted,
was the number of feeder pigs produced in the last two
months.
“There’s been no increase to speak of in the Midwestern
hog operations. This could tighten supplies, so I think the
next six months looks pretty good.”
Gehman pointed out that in 1966, growers were netting
about $6 to $7 per head. Today, they’re netting about the
same, but they now have twice as much money tied up in
their operations. The feedman also said that corn prices
could go up to $3,40 per bushel in the near future.
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