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Swine Industry

Swine Industry. Topic # 3121 Basic Concepts Melinda Klockziem. Swine Trivia. How did Wall Street get it name? Free roaming pigs once rampaged through New York City. They erected a wall to help prevent this. Where did the saying “living high on the hog” come from?

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Swine Industry

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  1. Swine Industry Topic # 3121 Basic Concepts Melinda Klockziem

  2. Swine Trivia • How did Wall Street get it name? • Free roaming pigs once rampaged through New York City. They erected a wall to help prevent this. • Where did the saying “living high on the hog” come from? • Enlisted men who received shoulder and leg cuts of pork while officers received the top loin cuts.

  3. Industry • USA Pork Production • USA Second in the world • China is number one. • Corn Belt • Feed availability www.geog.umn.edu/ courses/3101/

  4. Industry • Leading States • Iowa, North Carolina, Minnesota, Illinois, and Indiana • Michigan • Ranks 13th in hog production insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/ michodo/micounty.gif

  5. Industry Organization • Classified by type • Four Types • Seedstock • Farrowing Operations • Finishing Operations • Farrow to Finish

  6. Organization • Seedstock • Provide breeding stock hogs • To better the genetics, thus profitability • Farrowing Operations • Maintain sows and sell young pigs to Finishers www.ces.purdue.edu/ pork/main.html

  7. Organization • Finishing Operation • Feed hogs until slaughter • 5-6 months • 240-270 pounds • Farrow to Finish • Complete process from farrowing to slaughter.

  8. The Other White Meat http://www.otherwhitemeat.com/default.asp?m=rec

  9. Hog Quality Grades http://ars.sdstate.edu/AnimalEval/Swine/QualityGrades.htm

  10. The End http://www.thepigpage.com/carroll/images/img02.jpg

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