Fifth-generation pork producer finds niche
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Phil Kramer poses with a couple of pregnant gilts soon to give birth. Kramer has a 65-head sow herd and markets about 1,100 pigs per year. His current breeding mix is Chester White/Duroc, but Phil is a member of the Hereford Hog Hall of Fame. Humboldt Independent photo by Kent Thompson.
By KENT THOMPSON
Humboldt’s Phil Kramer is proud to be a fifth-generation pig farmer. That’s a claim not many pork producers can make these days.
Phil’s great-great grandfather, Isadore Kramer, raised pigs, as did his great grandfather, grandfather and father.
It could be said that animal husbandry and raising high-quality pork is in Phil Kramer’s blood.
His father, Martin Kramer, farms near Algona and raised farrow-to-finish hogs from 1975 to 2017. He was named an Iowa Master Pork Producer in 2007.
Read about Phil's farrow-to-finish pig operation in this week's Salute to Pork Producers in the Humboldt Independent. Subscribe by clicking on the link at the top of this page.
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