How farmers raise safe and healthy pork for your dinner table
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1/7/2025
You can feel confident that the pork you buy for your family is safe, nutritious and delicious thanks to the hard work of farmers.
Iowa is the nation’s top pork producing state, and Iowa farmers have generations of experience raising high-quality pork.
“We eat the pork that we are raising, so I take its safety very seriously since it’s coming to my table first. I want to make sure that my family — and yours — is safe,” says Sarah Rickelman, a Grundy County Farm Bureau member and pork farmer from Reinbeck.
Rickelman and her husband, John, raise Berkshire pigs. Berkshires are a heritage breed known for high-quality pork.
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