Custom-Bred Sows Become Money-Making Sideline For Them

Custom-bred Sows Become Money-Making Sideline For Them HOG EQUIPMENT & IDEAS Hog Equipment & Ideas (351) 19-2-33 Jerry and Alice Van Braak are making an extra buck or two in the hog business and their customers are getting back into business a lot faster thanks to a sideline business the couple recently started. They sell custom-bred sows instead of open gilts to farmers who have depopulated. "We breed sows to suit the customer's schedule," says Jerry who, along with wife Alice, owns Grandview Farms, Coaldale, Alberta. For the service, the Van Braaks charge $125 over the price of an open gilt. The Van Braaks plan to use the extra money generated from the sideline business to transition out of a commercial operation into a purebred breeding operation. (From the National Hog Guide).

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