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Master Pork Producers

Keeping it in the family

The Ten Napels know a thing or two about hog farming

By Jeff DeYoung, Iowa Farmer Today
Oct 4, 2017
Oct 4, 2017

Cheryl and Robert Ten Napel were recently named Master Pork Producers by the Iowa Pork Producers Association. The couple farms near Ireton, Iowa, in Sioux County.
IFT photo by Jeff DeYoung

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By Jeff DeYoung, Iowa Farmer Today

IRETON, Iowa — Robert Ten Napel says he remembers being 5 years old and working in the farrowing house with his father.

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