This paper compares the costs of production of three major North American hog producing regions. Ontario, Manitoba, and Iowa all have specific advantages and disadvantages\u00a0geographically\u00a0that affect hog\u00a0raising, such as distance to slaughter plants, price of land, access to feed grains, exchange rates, regulations as well as other factors. The hog business has been changing for years, Canada has had better numbers when it comes to piglets per sow per year because of the remaining amount of small farms in the US, it appears these small farms will cease to exist in the future as farming becomes more industrialized. Researchers have\u00a0built an economic model that considers several factors to determine which region is best suited for raising hogs in an economically efficient way. The model determined that for farrow-to-wean operations, Manitoba was the best location based on a number of factors, and that for farrow-to-finish, Iowa was the best suited region for economic profit. With trade liberalization growing, agriculture becoming more industrialized, environmental concerns increasing and consumer demand for humanly raised food growing, it appears that the lowest cost producer will survive as they will be\u00a0 able to adapt to a changing market. This creates a need for\u00a0 in-depth economic modeling to be able to track all costs closely to remain competitive.<\/p>\n
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This paper compares the costs of production of three major North American hog producing regions. Ontario, Manitoba, and Iowa all have specific advantages and disadvantages\u00a0geographically\u00a0that affect hog\u00a0raising, such as distance to slaughter plants, price of land, access to feed grains, exchange rates, regulations as well as other factors. The hog business has been changing for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18120,19],"tags":[4685,3814,190,2883,583,19644,286,46,20007,2771,1675,3465,14,126,89,1231,76,104,20911,6053],"class_list":["post-13258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario-pork","category-pork-insight-articles","tag-access","tag-competitive","tag-cost","tag-cost-of-production","tag-costs","tag-dd","tag-dust","tag-feed","tag-gh","tag-iron","tag-location","tag-pea","tag-pig","tag-piglet","tag-piglets","tag-regulations","tag-slaughter","tag-sow","tag-t","tag-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13261,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13258\/revisions\/13261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}