Yall hear bacon/porks gonna get high priced?

haypoint · #41 01/14/14, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by big rockpile

As far as Wild Hogs I like going out get couple hundred pounds of meat with one shot on something all I spent was a Bullet.

Most here stay close to water.

big rockpile

You might think different if you were a corn grower that had a few dozen acres destroyed by the off spring of wild hogs imported for a hunt club but escaped due to poor fencing. The farmer has a lot more loss than your bullet, and didn't get the meat.

haypoint · #42 01/14/14, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by am1too

The more I read this thread the more I believe it to be a contrived marketing ploy to raise the price like a few things in the recent past.

...and just how does this ploy work? 100% of your production lost, how do you win? Why does EVERYTHING need to be a conspiracy for some folks?
We've had a dozen or more invasive species show up in this country, due to world trade. We had some Avian Influenza every now and then. Flu goes world wide every year. China has been battling this new pig disease. I'd say it was just a matter of time, but those that just discovered 3 million dead hogs, act ambushed by the news and resort to blaming it on Big Ag. Come on, folks, why not blame it on GMO?

Thousands of farmers' livelihood threatened by this rapidly spreading hog disease and you want to talk about the cost of bacon?

haypoint · #43 01/14/14, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by am1too

Any one notice all the problems are traced back to big ag. So far I've not seen one single problem traced back to the little guy they're trying to put out of business through government action.

Oh no! The conspiracy has backfired. The widespread hog disease from China was intended to only infect farms with a dozen sows or less.

Come on, you think your handful of hogs is going to get a reporter out to your farm?

What action, related to this disease outbreak, is the government taking to squeeze out the small hog producer?

haypoint · #44 01/14/14, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by SashayXP

I can't speak to high pork prices anywhere but here in Oklahoma...but after new year, the price of pork breakfast sausage had jumped over $1 per one pound package except for Hormel. If any of you have ever eaten Hormel breakfast sausage you know it has all the flavor of well worn Nikes and thus the price for hormel HAS to stay low or no one would buy it. But truly, until I can grow my own, I just don't want to live in a world without Jimmy Dean. I may have to get a part time job to supplement my income to pay for my habit. Geez.....

Beef prices are at record high prices, too.

rambler · #45 01/14/14, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by am1too

Any one notice all the problems are traced back to big ag. So far I've not seen one single problem traced back to the little guy they're trying to put out of business through government action.

I'm just puzzled by this message, it sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise interesting thread.

The problems are a virus running around in piglets causing damage.

Small open herds will be affected in worse ways than the big confined operations. Now, is a reporter going to go to a farmer with 2 sows, or a farmer with 150 sows to look at the pile of dead piglets? Which makes the better story to sell more advertising? So you won't see the devastation on the small farms.

This is an old news story to most farmers. Been talked about for a year or more. Our news media is that way - not very timely. We need to stay in touch with people that can inform us, our extension agents, our ag schools, our various ag related businesses and the ag media.

We need to be aware of these things a lot sooner than we are.

Paul

Wendy · #46 01/14/14, 11:05 PM

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Beef prices are at record high prices, too. Yall hear bacon/porks gonna get high priced? - Homesteading Questions

I know! We just had a beef butchered.