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Boar sets record at Summer Type Conference
It was a successful day for a Western Illinois University professor and his family at the National Swine Registry’s Summer Type Conference. Mark Hoge and his family sold their Class1 Yorkshire boar for a world-record price of $270,000.
Hoge says the experience was humbling for his family. “The boar was a result of years of mating decisions and selection experience,” he says. “We were very surprised he sold for that price, but I knew people really liked him. We are very fortunate and thankful for the showpig industry.”
The record-setting boar was sold to Genetic Edge & Reynolds Farm out of Ohio.
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