herefishy, game ranch operators that specialize on hogs often also specialize in what I like to call working man's hunts. Hunts for a couple hundred a weekend let you leave with a couple decent eating sized hogs and a smile. The reason that these game ranches cannot simply suck up the extra cost of testing everyboar that comes through the gates and then then up their prices to cover it is thatif that happens the days of a weekend lease that a working man can afford are over. If the ranches loose those hunts, they go under, and another business bites the dust. I am shocked, absolutely shocked,that you cannot see that. Right now the buying stations have no competition, no reason to pay a decent pricefor feral hogs because they are the only ones buying hogs, and the only ones allowed to buy female hogs. If the game ranches were back to buying, prices would go up and folks would go back to trapping, or tying dog caught hogs instead of sticking them.