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Putting the Cargill Sow Housing Announcement in Perspective

2014-06-17 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - Cargill announced last week that it intends to have all of its company-owned sows in group gestation by the end of 2015 and that contract growers must have Cargill-owned sows in group housing by the end of 2017, writes Steve Meyer for the National Hog Farmer.

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Putting the Cargill Sow Housing Announcement in Perspective

2014-06-16 21:33:00| National Hog Farmer

By Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics, Inc., Adel, IA Cargill announced last week that it intends to have all of its company-owned sows in group gestation by the end of 2015, and that contract growers must have Cargill-owned sows in group housing by the end of 2017. Successful Farmings 2013 Pork Powerhouses article listed Cargill as the nations eighth largest hog producer with 155,000 sows. That number is up from 136,000 sows in 2012. Cargill likely has more sows now as it has been slowly completing and populating its large production site near Dalhart, TX. A Minneapolis Star-Tribune article about the group gestation announcement claims that Cargill currently has 66,000 sows in the Texas Panhandle. read more

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