Illinois Pork, Packers, Politics and Mini-Building Boom
If there were a contest to name the ideal place to raise hogs, longtime Illinois pork producer Art Lehmann believes his state is as competitive as any...
Coping with High Feed Costs
Years of operating in a hot cash grain market may have helped prepare Strawn, IL, pork producer Art Lehmann to better cope with today's high input costs....
Illinois' Newest Packers
The launch of the producer-owned Meadowbrook Farms, and Triumph Foods' announced intentions to build a new plant in East Moline, have been hot stories...
Illinois Producers Ponder Future
Bible Pork Inc. Bible Pork Inc., based in Louisville, IL, was The Maschhoffs' first sow farm contractor, starting out as a 500-sow, farrow-to-wean operation....
Illinois profile
Despite some dips in production during the last few decades, Illinois showed a bit of a resurgence in recent years and retained its 4th ranking in U.S....
Hog Prices Just an Anomaly?
To use an appropriate porcine question: Will demand save our bacon? When we look at the last two weeks, the answer could certainly be a resounding “Yes!” Why else would packers be aggressively chasing hogs when slaughter rates are so high? And why else...
Higher Prices Offer Little Relief
It is difficult to believe that spot market carcass prices of $67/cwt. and futures contract prices in the $70s (and $80s for the deferred contracts) can leave the pork industry in a serious financial situation...
Why Heavyweight Hogs, Now?
Big question of the day: Why are pork producers selling such heavy hogs when feed costs so much and profits are so awful?...
Birth Weight Effects on Postnatal Growth
In the existing commercial sow populations, variation in postnatal growth performance of their offspring may be already preprogrammed before birth. Because...
Economic Effects Of Variation
In 1986, I had a hole-in-one at the Ames (IA) Country Club. As I was carrying on like a kid, my golf partner sat quietly in the golf cart. I thought maybe...
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