Hogs Your Way
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Hogs Your Way
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2001
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Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
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Hogs Your Way was created and produced for farmers considering adding, changing or expanding hog production in their portfolio of farm enterprises.
It is designed to help you make decisions on how to raise hogs in a way that best fits your overall personal, family and financial goals. The challenges associated with hog production have increased over the last few years. Low prices and rising costs, environmental concerns, concerns about food safety, and social controversies have made hog production more challenging for farmers. However, in the midst of this there are farmers who are excited about their hog production systems, their enterprises and their future. Hogs Your Way tells stories of some of these farmers and describes the production systems they are using. Some of these practices are not often seen in the farm press and are not widely known. Hogs Your Way presents these alternative systems as well as the more conventional confinement system, with the goal of increasing awareness of the range of options for hog production
available to Upper Midwest farmers as they try to adapt to these challenges. In addition to providing an overview of four production system options, Hogs
Your Way challenges you to consider your “big picture” in making your choice. A new or expanded enterprise on your farm can have a variety of impacts on
your work, finances, quality of life, family and community.
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Energy and Sustainable Agriculture Program, Minnesota Department of Agriculture; University of Minnesota Extension; Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota
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DiGiacomo, Gigi; Love, Patricia; Martin, Wayne; Morse, Debra Elias; Nelson, Beth; Virnig, Ken. (2001). Hogs Your Way. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/229519.
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