A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 8,1986
Hog Contracting
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mills can. In some cases that he’s
aware of, feed is costing contract
growers 50 percent more than it
' Annual Forage Conference Set
9:00-10:00 a.m
MORNING PROGRAM - Quality Forages an Profitable Dairy Feeding Programs
Mr. Bruce Kreider, presiding
"How Forage Quality Relates to Production, Intake, and
Profitability”- Dr. Neal Jorgenson
“Formulating a Sound Nutrition Program”
- Dr. Richard Adams
"Forage Testing Options and Ration Programming at Merkle
Laboratory”- Dr. Ann Wolf
LUNCH (with PFGC annual meeting report)
AFTERNOON PROGRAM - Managing Resources to Maximize Returns
Mr. George Wilcox, presiding
"Growing & Feeding Quality Forage - Farmer’s Perspectives”
Dairymen Panel - Mr. Tom Craig, Centre County
Mr. Frank Marks, Wayne County
Dr. Sidney Bosworth, Panel moderator
“Evaluating Crop Rotations”- Mr. William Waters
"To Buy Or To Grow Your Own?"- Dr. Joseph Hlubik
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106 Ag. Admin. Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802
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would if they mixed their own.
Although Burkholder concedes
that a contract may be beneficial
to producers trying to get a start in
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the business, he worries that this
year’s favorable market will en
courage the large feed mills to
expand their contracting business
and flood the market with pork.
“Generally the fellows running the
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pointing out that the contractor
doesn’t have to “put up with the
labor situation. The farmer might
not reach out as quickly to expand
and hire more help.”
Despite the increase in con
tracting in recent years,
Burkholder doesn’t see the hog
business going the way of the
poultry industry. “Chicks can be
produced in a more mechanical
way,” he says. “With sows you
always have a variety of
problems.”
Ken Kephart concurs. “Getting a
chicken from egg to broiler is
much different. It takes a special
kind of an individual to want to do a
good job farrowing sows.”
That’s what John Henkel, an
independent Yorkshire breeder
from Strasburg, finds appealing
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about the business. “Getting the
maximum production out of a sow
herd,” is doubly rewarding when
you do it on your own, says Henkel.
Of course, there’s also the profit
motive. “If you want to take the
risk, you stand to make more
money if you do it youself,” Henkel
sums up.
Like most independents, Henkel
believes that pressure from in
tegrators will threaten operations
such as his in the future. But most
contractors contend that they
aren’t out to eliminate independent
operators. “I think there’s always
going to be a place for the in
dependents, but they’re going to
have to become the best,” says
White Oak’s Mike Pflieger.
“They’re going to have to be
thinking marketing all the time. ”
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