8/ My hunch is that wife and I each eat 25 lbs of bacon per year. If that cuts my life short by a year or two, well, at least the rest of it will have been filled with bacon.
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19/ hand-waving numbers, buying and raising 3 piglets costs ~ $1,500 and yields 1,200 lbs live weight 840 lbs hanging weight 580 lbs cut weight (worst case) or $2.58 / lb (worst case) assuming you do your own butchering and labor is freehttps://twitter.com/idprism/status/1047215478949568512 …
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20/ You can lower your labor and raise your cost by using a butcher. You can increase your labor and lower your cost by collecting free food (e.g. stale bread) I've got a chapter on the economics of this in the chapter of my (not yet finished) farming book (est pub date 2020)
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Does the whole package end up netting you a loss profit or 0? I mean discounting the work, I suppose, because time is money but self-sufficiency is priceless.
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