Unused modern hog barn non hog usage

[bucket]

How high are the walls?

Good question, but what would stop someone from jacking the building up???? Cost???

[checking]

Pharma, it all depends on how much you inhale!

[Braveheart]

Near a lake? Start a worm farm. Bait is a growing business as fishing gains popularity. Your aquaculture idea might find a more stable market raising minnows and smelts again for bait. People will pay for recreation but squeal about paying for food. You'd also avoid the food safety issues.

[farmaholic]

Pharma, it all depends on how much you inhale!

Good to know.

[Braveheart]

How about mushrooms? With emphasis on eating local, mushrooms might be a good opportunity.

[Guest]

Some good ideas there. Wouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. Look at diverse income streams. Saffron, garlic, ginseng for example.

[mcfarms]

Couldnt seed today because of the conditions so I called him and we went and looked at it, slanted floors not cement dividers, 10 ft ceilings 4 ft concrete stem walls with 6 ft walls 32000 square foot building I couldnt even begin to image the cost to jack it up to use it for other things and with that slanted floor and the drains under it I shudder to think what the cement redo would cost these things are purpose built and that purpose was hog and theres another issue. The inlaws built the facility on one of their unoccupied quarters so this thing is sitting with a lagoon all by itself with a feed bin and a well building and genset . I suppose it makes sense to keep that hog lagoon tucked back away from the road and not have a home near it, but I told him any thing he did in there in the way of aquaculture or counter culture was going to need some pretty good security and monitoring if no one was going to be onsite 24/7. I really have no background in the hog thing so thats all I could leave him with. Said he should contact people in the different types of industries that are using repurposed facilities like these and see if any of these are successful enough they need more space and try to lease this to them. otherwise I told him to keep his day job. Because there was a reason it has been sitting empty for 6 years.

[farmaholic]

How about mushrooms? With emphasis on eating local, mushrooms might be a good opportunity.

When I was just starting farming and "diversication" was the buzz word I talked to our local ag-rep about a mushroom growing op.......of course I'm a bit of an invertebrate, thats why metaphorically today I'm only a peanut farmer!

...."Mushrooms More Than Ever", is it too late?

[farmaholic]

Combining two thoughts, I always thought of hog furrow to finishing a boom and bust cyclical business that my account says triggers Agristability payments. My accountant said he had a client that raised hog breeding stock that was more stable.

[farmaholic]

Who's money built this barn? Why build it and not use it for it's intended purpose? Is it a function of cauterizing the bleeding of cash in hog production if it has become that unprofitable again?