Processing Feed For Pigs

[Hjwise]

We have a small farm that fattens at total of 4400 pigs a year (B&B) which eat approximately 1000t of food - we grow around 1000t of feed wheat. It seems wrong to load a bunch of lorries to go off to the mill only for another load of lorries to bring it back again in pellet form. Does anyone process their own feed on a B&B system? Is it a whole lot of hassle not worth getting involved with??

 

[Suffolk Serf]

We have a small farm that fattens at total of 4400 pigs a year (B&B) which eat approximately 1000t of food - we grow around 1000t of feed wheat. It seems wrong to load a bunch of lorries to go off to the mill only for another load of lorries to bring it back again in pellet form. Does anyone process their own feed on a B&B system? Is it a whole lot of hassle not worth getting involved with??

There are some that buy weaners from one of the big integrators, home mix the grub, then sell them back again when finished.
One of the integrators was planning to fill empty feed lorries with feed grain from the farm where they’d just blown feed off. I think in the end they felt feed lorries were too expensive to be sitting around waiting for the farmer to turn up with the teleporter.

 

[Avek]

I thought about it but never decided

 

[Pan mixer]

I think that the problem is that the big integrated operations have bought all their wheat etc forward and that might not correspond to the price that the B and B farmer would want for his grain.