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Coping With Pesky High Feed Costs
2013-08-19 17:49:00| National Hog Farmer
The cost of critical feed ingredients continues to rise. Just as early June hog futures prices soared to $100 per hundredweight, so, too, did feed ingredient prices nearly increase in lockstep to $97 to raise a finished pig (50 to 280 lb.), lamented Joel DeRouchey of Kansas State University in a talk at World Pork Expo (WPX) held June 5-7 in Des Moines, IA. read more
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