As Price of Grain Rises, Catfish Farms Dry Up

As Price of Grain Rises, Catfish Farms Dry Up

USA 18 July 2008 -

Source: The New York Times
Catfish farmers across the South, unable to cope with the soaring cost of corn and soybean feed, are draining their ponds.
“It’s a dead business,” said John Dillard, who pioneered the commercial farming of catfish in the late 1960s. Last year Dillard & Company raised 11 million fish. Next year it will raise none. People can eat imported fish, Mr. Dillard said, just as they use imported oil.

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