Contract hogs: Young farmers' risk and opportunity
Story Date: 6/24/2015

 

Source: FARM PROGRESS, 6/23/15

This is the first part of a three-part series this week on FarmFutures.com.


Ever since the great hog collapse of 1998, farmers have more often been seen exiting, rather than entering, the pig business. Not so for Levi Greuel and his cousin Austin Greuel, two young farmers who bucked the trend and began – from scratch – a feeder pig business seven years ago at their family grain farm near Industry, Ill.

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