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Show New Selling System Aids Hog Producers Price Agreed Upon Right in The Pen Under a new system of selling hogs, buyers and salesmen at the markets agree on the price right in the pen before the hogs are weighed. Thus the old weight-schedule weight-schedule is being replaced by a pen-to-pen system of marketing. The buyer is given a chance to recognize rec-ognize quality and pay a premium for good hogs. i The quality of this Chester White sow and litter Is appar- f ent even to the casual observer; observ-er; but under the old weight-schedule weight-schedule of selling hogs, breeders breed-ers who produce such quality stock would receive nothing extra for the added time and care they had expended to bring their hogs to such a degree de-gree of excellence. The reason advanced for Increased In-creased interest 'in marketing is that the weight-schedule system fails to recognize the difference between hogs. It also fails to pay for true quality. Under the old schedule-selling, salesmen and buyers at a market would agree in the morning how many hogs each buyer would get. A schedule of process was set up according to weight. "Hogs was hogs" and the scales determined the price. But that system is gradually being be-ing abandoned. Under the old method, farmers judged probable market prices by estimating the weight of their hogs. A premium of 50 cents per hundredweight was considered unusual at the market although the real value of hogs of the same weight varies as much as $5 or $6 per animal. Such premiums prem-iums offered poor pay to the expert ex-pert producer who raises top-quality top-quality hogs worth more money. Another reason for the new system sys-tem is the fear that if a better job of selling isn't done, hogs may be sold on a dressed-carcass basis. This method of marketing (which is used in Canada) is being explored ex-plored by many farmers, cooperatives, coopera-tives, agricultural experiment stations sta-tions and studies under the federal research and marketing act. Many public market operators also are worried about the decline in volume vol-ume of hogs arriving for sale at terminal markets. |
