Everything is not fine with swine
CANADA - Ontario Pork producers are struggling with low prices, even though they are sending more animals to market and using fewer resources to raise better hogs.Jim Dalrymple has just completed a special report on the state of agriculture for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.
In that report -- he states there has been a technological and genitic revolution in the pork industry that has changed the way farmers sent the animals to market.
Dalrymple tells Bayshore Broadcasting News there used to be a five to one feed conversion to produce one kilogram of pork and that has been reduced to two and a half to one today.
In addition he says hog producers are using 40 per cent less water to put a pig to market today than four decades ago because of faster growth and better efficiency.
Source: Bayshore Broadcasting