He said his great-grandfather had two brothers, and they all farmed. The farm he lives on now- which was about a quarter of a ...

through Nov. 2023 pig crop, at 34.6 million head, was down slightly from 2022. The number of sows that farrowed during this three-month period was down 4% from 2022 at 2.97 million head ...

In 2007, Bev and Duane built a new home in Osage and moved off the farm. During those 30 years on the farm, Duane farrowed and raised thousands of hogs, while growing corn and soybeans.

The decrease in sows farrowing and farrowing intention coincides with the trend that market hogs display. Iowa has seen a much larger decrease in sows farrowed (-4.17%) than the national change (-1.68 ...

Ongoing herd expansion is questionable. The June through August pig crop was down 1% from the same period in 2023 with a 3% decline in the number of sows farrowed, but there were a record number of ...

The sows farrowed during the quarter represented 50 percent of the overall breeding herd. U.S. hog producers intend to have 2.96 million sows farrow during the September-November 2024 quarter, down ...

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I then travelled to Germany for four weeks to work on a large-scale pig unit which operates under the name Emerald Irish Pork. The farm is located in a small village called Rietz which is about an ...