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Overweight Pig Farms

The value of hogs has fallen 15 percent over the past year and Quebec, Canada’s largest pig producing province, is trying to shed animals. The plan is to spend C$80 million to reduce the output of animals by 1 million head. But the problem may be bigger than that. Quebec has 53.8 percent of the Canadian pig farms but only produces 31 percent of the total pig crop. At a time when livestock operations are consolidating to achieve economies of scale, Quebec has a long way to go.  Quebec has the advantage of producing the second largest amount of corn and soybeans for feed, and Ontario is adjacent with the largest feed output. Still, the province lacks efficiency on the farm and that impacts profitability at the processors. Though n...

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