Pork producers get through challenges of pandemic

  • Team members at Keesecker Agri Business spend some time with the main focus of the business – the piglets. Nursery manager Alvaro Ayala, above, takes a selfie with a pig. Below left is Rocio Chavez in one of the nursery buildings and below right, Karin Joanette Pretorius cradles a young piglet.
    Team members at Keesecker Agri Business spend some time with the main focus of the business – the piglets. Nursery manager Alvaro Ayala, above, takes a selfie with a pig. Below left is Rocio Chavez in one of the nursery buildings and below right, Karin Joanette Pretorius cradles a young piglet.
  • Pork producers get through challenges of pandemic
    Pork producers get through challenges of pandemic
  • Pork producers get through challenges of pandemic
    Pork producers get through challenges of pandemic
Local pork producers have had additional stress this year as hog processing shutdowns from the coronavirus pandemic have created a backlog of hogs in the production system. Pork producers Bruce Livingston, Brad Ohlde and Keesecker Agri Business avoided euthanizing any pigs this past spring during the hog processing shutdowns. Livingston and Ohlde said timing, and their business models, have…

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