AZO—Lancaster Famine* Saturday, December 6,1980
BY SHEILA MILLER
COCALICO Any farmer most peaked price flue- even the most steady-handed
following the recent hog tuation m the industry’s economist’s head spin, the
markets during the past history. Despite this rise and interest in raising pork has
Hybred Pork Inc.'s president Eugene Martin discusses the ongoing con
struction at the coporation's Cocalico complex with Leon Hoover, center, treas
urer and Dr. Tim Trayer, manager.
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not dampened
Responding to the cry
from East Coast meat
processors for a steady
supply of hogs, eight
professional farmers and
businessmen have joined
together to cash in on the
premium prices packers are
willing to pay for local hogs
(passing along part of the
savings on freight costs for
hogs transported in from the
Midwest).
Last Friday, the cor
poration opened doors to the
public in its official- Open
House here in Lancaster
County. With workmen still
hustling to complete the new
complex, visitors had a
chance to tour through the
finished breeding and
gestation division, and see
the basic groundwork for the
remaining farrowing rooms
and nurseries
On hand for the open house
were several of the cor
porate members, including,
President Eugene Martin,
the former owner of the 10-
acre site on which the
complex is being erected
Martin, who is from
Cocalico, has been in the hog
finishing business for the
past five years
Martin explained the
reason the group got
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lower break-even.” He at
tributed the brain-storm of
forming a corporation to Abe
Weidman of Mount Joy, now
a Hybred Pork director
According to Dr. Tim
Trayer, manager of Hybred
Pork Inc, the corporation
allows for a “hybrid of
ideas” He noted the mixed
group of investors permitted
that basis for the Hybred
Pork Inc’s progressive
program that ‘would have
strapped any single in
dividual.”
Other corporate members
include Leon Hoover,
Myerstown, Art Hershey,
Cochranville, Ezra Good,
Terre Hill, Morgan
Hollmger, Lititz, Melvin
Hurst, Ephrata, and Marvin
Gingrich, Myerstown.
Leading the way on a tour
of the complex. Dr. Trayer’s
enthusiam for the complex
was impossible to conceal
And he admitted he was
anxious to get started the
breeding program was
scheduled to begin this week
As far as whether all the
new ideas that went into
designing the complex will
be successful, Trayer said,
he’ll just have to wait and
see, and then evaluate it
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Tiayei, who, with hit. wile
Deb, will be managing the
hog operation, is not new to
the area. He was raised near
Hershey and practiced
veterinary medicine after
graduating from Ohio State
University Veterinary
College last year as a
member of the team from
Valley Animal Hospital m
Palmyra
Drawing on his medical
expentise, Trayer has
assisted m designing one of
the best housing
arrangements for raising
, pigs, trying to deal with
three major problems
- drafts, moisture and en
-vironmental temperature
He pointed out that the
complex was designed with _
concrete floors only in the wj)
breeding and gestation area
with wire floors being in
stalled in the four farrowing
rooms and six nurseries
Trayer noted the sows and
boars need concrete floors in
the gestation and breeding
area in order to avoid leg
and feet problems However,
the wire in the other rooms
aids m controlling the
bacterial count and
preventing bad knees in
baby pigs
Once the Cocahco complex
is in full swing, explained
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