FLEETWOOD Recently
over one hundred pork producers,
and people interested in the hog
industry gathered at the Fleetwood
Grange to participate in a “pig
picking” and a seminar on hog
production. Following an excel
lent meal of barbecued pork raised
on Brown’s 40 Hog Supplement
and corn. Dr. Carl Brown,
Brown’s Sales Manager, intro
Speakers at Brown’s Pork Production seminar are
(L to R): Dr. Tim Trayer, Veterinarian; Dr. Thomas
Klchura, Director of Nutrition, F.M. Brown’s Sons, Inc.;
Dr. Matt Parsons, Brown’s Consulting Hog Nutritionist
and David McCracken, Brown’s Sales Representative.
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Brown’s Sponsors Seminar On Profitable Pork
duced the guests to F.M. Brown’s
Sons, Inc. and its employees. He
then gave a brief presentation on
the importance of fine tuning hog
management programs. Since
1980 the number of farms raising
hogs has dropped 50% while the
percentage of total hogs raised in
500 head or larger units increased
from 42% to 56%. The industry is
specializing, but eastern pork pro-
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ducers still have many positive
factors in their favor. Com prices
are relatively low and many local
hog farmers find finished hogs an
excellent way to market their com
crop year round at a higher rate of
return. Local producers also have
numerous marketing opportunities
for weaned or finished hogs.
Brown’s specializes in producing
feeds which can be fine tuned to
each customers needs. Brown’s
doesn’t compete with their cus- 7 '
tomers by contracting hogs, but
rather they try to specialize in mak
ing products that maximize the
increasing genetic efficiency of
todays leaner hog.
Dr. Matt Parsons was the next
speaker on the program. Dr. Par
sons is Brown’s consulting hog
nutritionist. He is certainly no
stranger to Pennsylvania, having
formally been swine extension
specialist at Penn State. He also
works with his family on their hog
and sheep farm in Massachusetts.
Dr. Parsons touched on numerous
areas that improve profitability on
hog farms. He discussed protein
and lysine requirements and the
extra value “fat added” feeds pro
vide in lactating, growing, and fin
ishing diets. He discussed the five
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factors that affect hog price cific antibiotics to solve specific
(weight, dressing percentage, per- problems. Brown’s has a standard
cent lean, appearance and husban- set of antibiotics for their regular
dry practices) and some of the feeds, but a wide range of products
areas that affect each. He also dis- available for treatment or preven
cussed feeding sows during the ti o n of a specific problem. He also
summer, and how high fat diets discussed Brown’s ability to
generated from mixing com with a design a program when a non
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quality fat improve weaning are much higher or lower than nor
weights and reduce the amount of mally expected,
body heat sows produce. Dr. Par-y David McCracken, a Brown’s
sons reviewed some research into sales representative concluded the
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tance of a good quality control ing and finishing bams. Dave is
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the value of antibiotics in feeds and in his concluding remarks, Carl
the importance of feeding out cull Brown, thanked those who
sows to get a better profit margin attended' and. challenged them to
on them. take advantage of the current
Dr. Tom Kichura, Brown’s strong hog market to fine tune their
Director of Nutrition, followed up entire hog feeding and managc
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