I don't know how or why, but California has a pig welfare law coming in January that all the news sources say will raise pork prices nationwide. The new law says piggy has to room to roam like the deer and the antelope. WTF? Maybe that is pumping pork prices too. But I just started paying attention to a rancher friend who has raised a couple truckloads of pigs this year. He bought weaners and then fattens them for market, not because he wants to be a pig farmer, but because he had a bunch of low quality grain to get rid of. Anyway, money wise it's working for him. But what I noticed, the pigs are in a 20 acre pasture, and they don't want to be alone...they herd up something fierce like sheep. They sleep together, eat together, nap together, cheek on jowl as the saying goes. City people making animal care laws, Jeezus keerist.
