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Episode 14 - How a Top US Farm Survived the Virus That Killed 10M Pigs
In 2014 a virus killed 10 million pigs in America, and it got into Pat Hord's farm. Pat is CEO of Hord Family Farms in Bucyrus, Ohio, a fifth-generation farm with 10,000 acres across six states and about 5,000 pigs born every day. He thought he might be the last generation to run it. Instead, 2014 became one of the farm's best years, and the family decided God owns the business and everything it grows.
Pat tells Justin Forman what it takes to feed 5,000 newborn pigs a day (about 400 semi-trucks of feed a week), why he says less than 2% of Americans have any tie to a farm, and how a near loss…
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