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Agriculture
4:59 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

This little piggy has a market niche

Credit Amy Mayer / Harvest Public Media
When these baby pigs get bigger, Iowa farmer Randy Hilleman will move them from this nursery to an open-ended hoop house where they can move between indoors and out.

There’s more than one way to sell a pig.

And when the hog market plunged to 8 cents a pound in 1998, Iowa producer Randy Hilleman decided it was time to make a change. Hilleman raises Berkshire pigs, a breed that’s fattier than traditional pigs and costs a little more to raise. Back then, that was hurting him.

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Agriculture
4:15 pm
Tue September 25, 2012

National Pork Month is on the horizon

October is National Pork Month, but Missouri has already begun its celebrations.

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