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<blockquote data-quote="Suffolk Serf" data-source="post: 8200776" data-attributes="member: 636"><p>I think that you are correct.</p><p>However there is a highly successful and widely copied US model- started by Pipestone vets in Minnesota, which is the opposite of what we are seeing here with BQP, xxxxxxxxx etc.</p><p>In general, a group of farmers jointly build a 10,000 sow weaner production farm, then they get numbers of weaners according to their shareholding, which they might finish in their own buildings, on b and b farms or even sell.</p><p>The unusual thing is that the vet practice manages the sow farm for the farmers.</p><p>Is it successful? Well Pipestone now manage 400,000 sows I think and other vet practices have copied it, notably Carthage in Illinois.</p><p>So, some of the biggest operations in the US are actually farmer owned, rather than being corporate ogres.</p><p>Not sure why I posted about this as for various reasons it couldn't be copied here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Suffolk Serf, post: 8200776, member: 636"] I think that you are correct. However there is a highly successful and widely copied US model- started by Pipestone vets in Minnesota, which is the opposite of what we are seeing here with BQP, xxxxxxxxx etc. In general, a group of farmers jointly build a 10,000 sow weaner production farm, then they get numbers of weaners according to their shareholding, which they might finish in their own buildings, on b and b farms or even sell. The unusual thing is that the vet practice manages the sow farm for the farmers. Is it successful? Well Pipestone now manage 400,000 sows I think and other vet practices have copied it, notably Carthage in Illinois. So, some of the biggest operations in the US are actually farmer owned, rather than being corporate ogres. Not sure why I posted about this as for various reasons it couldn't be copied here. [/QUOTE]
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