Commercial Agriculture Program
Commercial Agriculture Newspaper
Spring 2010
Vol. 19, No. 2
PDF version of newspaper (1.08 MB)
- UN report calls for 100% increase in animal agriculture
- Updates on the Beef Focus Team
- Estate Planning Part lV: Outside the Will
- Thinking outside the barn Preserving animal agriculture in Missouri
- 2006 UN report on greenhouse gases flawed
- 2010 Agricultural Lenders School
- Spring Events, 2010
Beef
- Seasons in the cattle business
- New Beef Grazing Management Web Site
- BIF announces 2010 Gateway to Profit Conference
Crops
- Gene Stevens receives Rice Research Award
- Biofuel economics hinge on tax credit renewal
- Avoid selling at lowest prices
Dairy
Swine
Did you know...
From Oklahoma State University Extension
In the past hogs were fed table scraps and had a reputation for eating just about anything. The meat from hogs fed that way was very high in fat. The hogs would eat corn, grass, clover or even table scraps that would have otherwise become garbage. The word "hogwash", meaning something that is worthless, came from this practice.
In some areas hogs would be turned out to find their own food. Hogs would roam freely, eating what they could find-acorns from the ground or roots, which they dug up with their snouts. On Manhattan Island, New York, the hogs rampaged through grain fields until farmers were forced to build a wall to keep them out. The street running along this wall became Wall Street.
Today's swine producers are more careful about what they feed their animals. Modern hogs eat corn, wheat and soybean meal. Vitamins and minerals are added to increase growth and improve health. Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) have decreased or eliminated many of the swine diseases and parasites that hogs contracted from dirt.
contact Rex Ricketts, 573-882-4553.