The value in swine 4-H

By John Greig

The Bacon Maker Classic returned to the Ontario Pork Congress on June 20, 2024, for the first time since 2019.

The 4-H swine show had 28 members who registered and 26 brought their pigs to Stratford for the show.

All the pigs coming to the show had to be tested the week before for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea and Deltacoronavirus. A Danish entry is a common way for farmers to make sure that outside materials don’t enter their barns and a type of Danish entry was used at the show. Anyone entering the show area where the pigs were housed had to put on biosecurity boots, after stopping at a bench that kept outside shoes without covers on one side, and people wearing biosecurity boots on the other.

Watch Kelly deBruyn and Lauren Ball, who both started in the Oxford 4-H Swine Club when they were nine, talk about what one needs to know about showing pigs.