From Nebraska Agriculture and You
Third-generation Nebraska farmer Paul Segner worked two jobs for years in order to keep his farm near the city of Friend going strong. The father of three knew that if he wanted to leave his farm as a career opportunity to his sons one day, something had to change.
“In 2005, I was tired of working two jobs and decided to farm full time, so we put up our first contract finishing hog barn the next year,” Segner says. “It holds 1,250 hogs. We added another barn in 2008.”
Segner and his wife, Deb, took advantage of a contract offered by The Maschhoffs, hog production networks headquartered in Carlyle, Illinois. The Segners receive the weaned pigs when they are about 3 weeks old and raise them until they reach market weight, or about 290 pounds. They get a new batch of pigs about every six months. » Read more
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