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Traditional Family Farms Secret to Ontario's Success

2016-10-20 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

CANADA - There are plenty of pig farmers who farm pigs literally just on a block of concrete and little else. If disease strikes or pig prices plummet and feed costs rocket, making a profit can be tough going, whereas a mixed farming operation does not have “all its eggs in one basket”, plus has land on which to spread solid and liquid manure, writes Stuart Lumb.

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