Maggie Seiler shares consolidation metrics and insights from Bill Evan, National Pork Board CEO, to determine if swine industry changes might play out in the dairy segment.
. . . swine is the only livestock industry that has consolidated faster than dairy with a growth rate of the midpoint swine farm of 3,233 percent from 1987 to 2012. Dairy’s midpoint farm during that time grew 1,025 percent from 80 cows to 900.
Source: Hoard’s Dairyman, March 18, 2019. Link.
. . . you might be interested in watching is the movement of a lot of the pork producers that are at scale that have started buying into the packing industry.” – Bill Evan
INDUSTRY: There’s no doubt that rapidly shrinking points of production challenge animal health pros in vet services and sales resource deployment. The real news is that in spite of fewer producers, individual animal production numbers remain strong. Larger operations will demand different levels of service, as well.