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Iowa Select Farms was founded by Jeff Hansen, son of a farmer, with his wife Deb Hansen. Starting in Jeff Hansen's father's barn in Iowa Falls, Hardin County in the 1970s, the Hansens hog operation grew, after which they founded Modern Hog Concepts, supplying equipment to other hog farms. [2]
Today, most of the pork that is raised in Japan has a genetic connection to Iowa as a result of the 1960 hog lift. Yamanashi prefecture has since repaid the kindness of the hog lift. In 1962 the people of Yamanashi sent Iowa a “Bell of Friendship” and a bell house which currently sits south of the State Capitol building in Des Moines. [8]
The Rath Packing Company (Rath) of Waterloo (Iowa) opened for business on November 24, 1891, on the Cedar River. Initially, the company concentrated on hogs, but by 1908 the company was also slaughtering beef and soon lamb as well.
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Two Iowa kids can split a pound of bacon after a rare tie in the hog calling contest at the Iowa State Fair. Nearly two dozen kids walked up to the mic and belted out their best hog call, as if ...
I have assured them you are law abiding gentlemen and are only trying to get our goat...I will bet you a Minnesota prize hog against an Iowa prize hog that Minnesota wins." [4] The Iowa governor accepted, and word of the bet reached Iowa City as the crowd gathered at the stadium. The situation calmed, and the game proceeded without incident ...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack defends USDA's investment in now-bankrupt Iowa plant, saying the agency's default rate is 'very, very low.'
The Iowa State Fair Police Department was established in 2018, replacing the combination of private security guards and local law enforcement agencies that previously provided security and policing services to the Fairgrounds.