High Input Costs and Market Weights
Optimum market weight depends on lean growth potential, marginal feed efficiency through heavier weights, the packer grid, space availability on-farm and feed costs, according to Ronald O. Bates (State Swine Specialist, Michigan State University MSU), Thomas Guthrie (Extension Educator, Jackson CO) and Dale Rozeboom (State Swine Specialist, MSU) in the latest issue of MSU Pork Quarterly.