Sells hogs on time
wwarv n»i i. especially now, benotes. pounds. Feed costs 8.5 cents or
criticslto nrofS T * ke > *>r two market »•«» • pound ($l7O a ton). At this
SiSon. Lt «itta in nZf hogs, one with a slaughter weight Price, the total feed cost for the
pounds«dthSr witoa pig. is |6B.BBmat
SnTSe 210-pound market weight The feed HUB, respectively,
week on a field of neas or sweet ' conversion ratio is 4:1 for the 247- The market price is $45 per
Salvage mice wouldn’t cover P° un< t P>g- (Hogs become less hundred for both. The 247-pound
the nradiK&on costs. efficient in converting feed to gram animal sells for $111.15. The 210-
“Yet manv times we end im with 33 they become heavier.) The pounder brings $04.50. The return
conversion rate is 3.2 for the 210- after feed costs is $42.47 ($111.15
let them pass tbeirprLne and sell pound pig * 8001 ■ ninu,ls 8"“ 1.8 “«ius $68.68) for the heavy hog,
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of Delaware Extension live«bw>k K both start as feeder pigs the light one.
SDeoSmchS3FSr k ' sighing 45 pounds, the heavier There’s $7.15 more profit in the
whv one requires 126 days to reach 247 Ught hog. And that’s not all, says
to pounds, while the lighter one takes Fowler, Look at the effect the
important to seu on time- 1W to get m to 21() shorter number of days to market
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ha? in the number of pounds ot
pork you can sell in a year.
Let’s assume you have a 400-
head capacity finishing unit. There
are 23 fewer days involved if you
sell a pig at 210 pounds rather than
247. This means that instead of
filling your feeding floor 2.0 tiny*
a year if you feed to 247 pounds,
you can fill it 3.5 times a year by
selling at the lighter weight.
This six-tenths of a fill means
7,480 more pounds of pork sold in a
year. At a market price of $45 per
hundredweight, that’s an ad
ditional $3,336in gross income.
Here are some other points to
consider about lighter market
to worry about the volatility of floating interest rates.
This will help you in determining the cost of
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weights. Pork production can be
cut 15 percent without changing
breeding herd numbers. Grade and
yield idling favor lighter weight
carcasses.
A 247-pound pig has a carcass
weight of about 175 pounds for a 71-
perceiit yield, compared to a 210-
pound animal which will yield
between 73 and 75 percent The
yield bonus for many grade-yield
marketing programs starts at 73.5
percent
In addition, the hog finisher who
markets at lighter weights has a
better cash flow. And, as already
show, can produce pork at the
lowest cost per pound.
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