Search Begins for America’s Pig Farmer of the Year

 Well here we are today in 2015 and its practically May now. The weather is just starting to gloom up and the summer season is almost here. People all around with be ready to get out the boat and fishing poles and head down to the lake! Clear Lake, for all of us Iowans, right?

 How ever you tend to treat the summer season, it looks like Pork Checkoff® is looking to treat the summer season to find the best hog confinement farmer of the year. When we read this article we kind of look around at each other in disregard. How can you nominate a confinement farmer for being "Farmer of the year"? We will agree that some confinement farmers out their take better care of their facilities and pigs better then others. But all in all the pigs are still in a terrible environment.

 We though instead that Pork Checkoff® should be looking to nominate the best all natural pig farmer of the year. The best farmer is one that lets his livestock live a free life. The chores may be tougher and you may think that you are loosing "benefits or profits" by free-ranging, but really you a building better pigs that will live all year round and grow in both the summer and the winter.

 Pigs immune systems are much higher when you raise and farrow them outdoors all year around. And each gilt you keep back to breed from the litter, its immunity will be even more dense due to the fact that that piglets was born just the way her piglets will be born. And that is outdoors.