Our History

We are a fourth-generation family hog farm. Our oldest and founding partner, Lloyd, went to be with the Lord in October 2021 at the age of 94. He continued to mow our many acres up until a few months prior to his passing. He is missed every day and we strive to continue his dream of raising healthy homegrown hogs.  The next 3 generations range in age from 69 all the way to age 6.

Our farm started in the spring of 1953 in Montgomery County Pennsylvania. Lloyd, at the age of 26 and his young family purchased their first bred sow. Upon having her piglets, this new addition to the farm laid down on her whole litter of piglets. Tough Beginnings! Not to be discouraged, a boar was purchased, and the business prospered and grew. Initially the farm sold feeder pigs, but in the late 1950's the business began to raise and sell market hogs. Throughout the 1960’s the business grew to a sow herd of 60, producing feeder pigs and market hogs for local markets.

In 1973 the business needed to expand in order to include the 2nd generation into the family business. We made the tough but needed decision to move the operation to Berks County Pennsylvania where we are located today. The herd has grown to about 575 sows which produce feeder pigs, as well as, market hogs. By 2010 the third generation of the family began to become an important part of the decision-making process within the business. In 2014, we made the decision to focus solely on raising healthy, quality pigs and decided to rent our farm ground to a local farmer who supplies us with corn to feed our herd.

We decided to depopulate the whole farm in 2018 and replace the sow herd with clean disease free Topigs Norsvin Yorkshire and Landrace females. After the arrival of the new females the herd has been closed. We are using the Topigs Norsvin Duroc sire via AI to produce the offspring. The farm has adopted a strict bio security policy to produce healthy and quality animals to sell to the public. The animals are moved to our off-farm sales barn for pick up in order to maintain the health of our herd.

We have remained an independent family farm and plan to continue. It is exciting to see the fourth generation, although young, starting to get involved with some of the daily chores and care of our animals.  We look forward to providing the Northeast with quality pigs for years to come.