National Ag News
Late 90’s hog market crash pushed Minnesota farmer to organic swine
Jan 19, 2018, 16:14 PM
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The crash of the hog market in the late 1990’s was the impetus for a west-central Minnesota farmer’s move to organic swine production.
Jim VanDerPol and his family own Pastures a Plenty Farm in Chippewa County.
He calls 1998 a very bad year.
“I had a livestock trailer full of pigs, 60 to 120 pounds, that were going to go for $.08 cents per pound to the Hmong community in St.
