Young Iowa farmer Doug Schulte builds a pork operation
In Manchester area, 27 year old Doug Schulte farms 740 acres and raises 2500 to 3000 pigs annually in a farrow to finish system. He serves as Pork Producers president, discusses start up costs, land purchases, tiling, conservation, and weathering political issues like the grain embargo while aiming for future shows and a spring market hog event.
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Iowa Farm Bureau President Dean Kleckner lists inflation as the main hurdle for agriculture at the annual meeting. He urges steps to boost production, fund research, modernize transport, curb energy imports, and improve marketing while criticizing government spending that drives prices. He notes 13.3 percent inflation last year versus 6.5 percent in the 1970s and 2.2 percent in the 1960s.
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