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Transformation of a Missouri Family Farm: Diversified to Hog Monoculture, Slides of Marketing Management

An insight into the evolution of a family farm in missouri from a diversified operation involving cattle, dairy, sheep, poultry, and row crops to a monoculture hog production. The role of swine in a diversified farm, the reasons for stopping swine production in the mid-1980s due to industry consolidation, and the impacts of consolidation on small family farms. The document concludes with the proposed construction of a large hog cafo (concentrated animal feeding operation) near the family farm, raising concerns about the environmental and health implications.

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A Family Farm in Missouri

Photo by Hernan Vargas. Creative Commons BY-SA.

Lincoln Township, Mo.

Source: http://www.usgwarchives.org/maps/missouri/images/putnam.gif 5

What Is a Diversified Farm?

 Typical diversified farm

30 head beef cattle

12 dairy cows

50–100 sheep

Flock of egg-laying hens

 Some row crops grown as supplemental feed

Role of Swine in Diversified Farm

 Typical diversified farm often included swine

Reliable and steady income to supplement less predictable

profits from beef, dairy, and sheep due to shifts in market

prices

“Mortgage lifter”

Consolidation of Hog Operations

 Total number of farms raising hogs

Impacts of Consolidation

 More difficult to operate a small family farm

 Smaller producers were shut out of the market by the larger

producers

 Larger producers controlled finishing operations or filled all

available slots

 Better deals available to larger producers making it difficult for

smaller farmers to compete

Proposed Hog CAFO for Lincoln Township, Missouri

 Large corporation bought land in Lincoln Township to build a hog-

finishing facility

96 buildings would house 102,000 hogs

12 lagoons would EACH hold 25 million gallons of waste

 Property was within one to two miles of 30 family residences