ANFS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Dairy Cattle, Chincoteague Pony, Welsh Pony And Cob

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Animal and Food Sciences
• Course: ANFS101
• Professor: Griffiths Lesa

Document Summary

The place of the swine industry in us agriculture. Hogs currently generate 5. 5% of all us farm cash receipts and over 11% of animal agriculture"s share of all us farm cash receipts. Hogs are the fourth most important money generator in food animal agriculture. Us produces 10% of the world"s pig meat (pork) with 7% of the world"s hogs. 940 million in the world pigs are the third most numerous livestock in the world estimated to be 19 pigs per square mile around the world. Pigs use large surplus grain for feed economically advantageous. Get a lot more money for pork than if they sold the surplus grain. Pigs able to use high quality by-products (cookies, candies, bread) Cattle are able to use by-products from the brewery industry (use fermented feed) Feed costs are high fixed cost (80% corn high energy, 20% soybean protein)