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To: Free Vulcan
They sell the animal at auction by the pound. The buyer wants meat, the seller (farmer) wants weight.

There is no demand for low carb low fat pig feed. Dream on.

Are you an Atkins-ite? You seem to think pigs should be on the Atkins diet!

40 posted on 02/07/2011 7:43:01 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

You are completely ignorant of farming in 2011. The only game in town is lean, low-fat meat and has been for years. If you raise otherwise you aren’t going to sell it. I have sat down and talked to farmers with 100 to over 30,000 head of cattle. They want protein and a just enough carbs and fat to give the animal enough energy to finish out, make milk, etc. Hogs have a higher energy requirement than cattle, but the farmer still doesn’t want any more carbs or fats than necessary. That why hogs are finished out on corn-soybean meal feed and not straight corn, to make sure they get enough protein.


43 posted on 02/07/2011 8:20:53 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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