Amateur farmer Dottie Overland’s pigs get bigger and tastier every day, but her family may never get a chance to eat them. With the cost of farm feed rising to unprecedented levels, buying feed for ten pigs has become prohibitively expensive for Overland, a homeschooling mom who raises animals to save money. “Our intention was to grow them for us. We were gonna butcher them ourselves,” she told The Epoch Times. “It’s disappointing.” Overland, a Georgia resident, raises pigs and chickens to eat and sell. But after feed prices have risen by nearly a fourth, she has considered selling her pigs before they grow up. But she isn’t making this decision without a fight, she said. To dodge rising feed costs, Overland now feeds her pigs on grasses and day-old grocery store bread. She plans to ferment the feed she buys now so it will be more nutritious and stretch …
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