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Iowa Pork leader tries new recipes for busy season

Kristin Danley-Greiner
Nov 9, 2023
Nov 9, 2023

Trish Cook, president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association, and her family finish pigs from their sow farm in Linn County, Iowa, and mill their own feed.
Photos courtesy Iowa Pork Producers Association

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Kristin Danley-Greiner

Growing, Trish Cook’s family raised turkeys, cattle and hogs along with corn, soybeans and hay on their century farm in Linn County, Iowa.

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