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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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To: Free Vulcan
Really? How many animals have you ever sold at auction? How much experience do you have as a farmer?

I have sold dozens, and was raised on a farm.

Are you at Atkins-ite?

Where are the numerous and documented problems pigs have from eating fructose in corn?

45 posted on 02/07/2011 8:43:26 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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