Traditional Family Farms Secret to Ontario's Success

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.
calendar icon 20 October 2016
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