In a first for the event, an Eden Area Hutterite Colony has captured the top two spots at the 2015 Hog Days Brandon Pork Quality Competition.
The 2015 Pork Quality competition, held yesterday as part of Hog Days Brandon, attracted entries from across Manitoba.
Ron Bazylo, a business development specialist swine with Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development, says the Pork Quality Competition offers an opportunity for hog producers to show off what they have to offer.
This gives the producers bragging rights that they’re producing a hog that is demanded by the consumer today. We have the judge that grades it according to standards that are set out for the people that we have processing hogs in this province and we follow those parameters. Once producers get their results they’ll see how close they actually came to winning 1 of the prizes and they’ll try to improve on it 2 years from now. It gives them basic bragging rights that they are producing the best quality hogs in Manitoba.
We were pleased with the final results. All the entrants were very close in the grading and we were really surprised to see that one producer, Rolling Acres, they came in third in 2013 and this year they won not only first place but they won second place, as each entrant can enter 2 animals in this event. So they came in first and second. I’d like to congratulate them on a job well done.
This year’s top 5 winners included Rolling Acres Hutterite Colony at Eden with both the first and second place entries, Starlite Colony at Starbuck with the third place entry, Deerboine Hutterite Colony at Alexander, in fourth place and Sprucewood Hutterite Colony at Brookdale placing fifth.
