WD-40 x Perfect Fit (Reg# 160302002). Our choice of the Chester boars offered at the 2023 STC from the Brown Family in Ohio. With Crank It Up already here and taking a seat at the table as the more moderate, boxy one, we were on the hunt for a bigger framed boar and narrowed our list down to 2-3 that we liked during the show. After getting all of them up, we decided this one was the one that checked the most boxes for us. Smooth muscled, long striding, heavy boned, with an extended front third. He's packing quite a bit of heat but not excessively so. The pedigree packs a punch as well with two of the most dominating sires in the Chester breed over the past year or two. We were excited to get this one on the trailer to Iowa and look forward to putting him to use on our herd!

**Deceased - winter 2023-24 pigs will be his only crop

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Stand Up x Smoothie (Reg# 161579002). Heads Up is a boar bred by, and owned with Herb & Janet Brown (MO). Sired by a Stand Up son from Rakes and out of a Smoothie x Hocus Pocus sow. He is way good in a lot of places - he has a much true muscle as we've seen in a Cheser boar recently. He is wide coming and going but yet easy moving with everything moving in the right direction. Plenty of extension up front too. Heads Up came out of a group pen with many other boars on a standard feed ration - no fancy feed, no special care - just good livestock. We know the bottom side of the pedigree really well and with legacy Rake genetics on top, we're pretty certain that we have a productive herd boar that checks a lot of boxes in making better Chester White hogs! .

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Commotion x Ride or Die (Reg# 664644008). 2023 Fall Classic purchase from Vista Brook Farm. With the solid females that Just Like That churned out for us and others that used him, we felt it was time to add a little pop! This guy hit us hard when watching the show online. Two sets of eyes in two different places both saw this one and knew he was the one we needed to try and own - and since he has arrived we're even more excited with our purchase. Brandon put this one together and he checks a whole lot of boxes - he's a little more show oriented but he still carries a lot of muscle/body, he's wide coming and going, cocky fronted, and he knows he's a boar! We've even had a couple people see him and decide to use him to make cross pigs on their exotic sows for SW Yorks/light crosses. We won't see any pigs until summer 2024 but he's here and settled in and ready to go to work!

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Dot Dot Dot x Free Spirit (Reg# 181060002). Private treaty purchase from Mikeska Showpigs, TX. This boar was the youngest boar in the barn at the 2023 SWTC...by quite a bit...but we saw quite a bit of value and started talking about bringing him back to Iowa for some experimenting. What caught our eye is that he has some pieces we felt we needed to improve in our herd - length of stride and width at the ground. He comes from a sow line that has hung several banners around Texas and Oklahoma. And he also brings an interesting twist of a pedigree mixed with new and old school genetics (along with a bit of attitude) into our herd - he's dummy broke and knows he's a boar. First pigs are stout featured and thick front to back!

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Big Stack x Amazing Grace (Reg# 182755003). Color Up was our choice of the spot boars shown at the 2023 STC, bred and raised by Hirschfeld's. We buy the ones we like and this one checked a whole bunch of boxes for us being athletic, being big footed and heavy boned, being heavy muscled, having an attractive profile, being choke throated and extended up front. The old Amazing Grace sow was one of the only spot sows retained from the A Cut Above days so that added to the intrigue as a lot of high end spots have come from Benedict, NE over the years. We weren't really in the market for another spot boar with Black Dirt and The Brow already here but he hit the ring and caught our attention (long with a few other breeders we were sitting ringside with). Sometimes when your stack gets big enough you really ought to Color Up! **Owned with Pink Genetics and Oaks Livestock

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Colonel x Detox (Reg# 164799005). Mature boar acquired from Voorhees Showpigs (IL). Drew had been all but begging us to use this boar that he had bought from Neanan's back in 2017. We never got around to it, never got around to it, never got to it...until one day we saw an opening and snagged a couple bottles. We used him on a single sow and were really pleased with the outcome! As an older boar, we knew his days were numbered but we went ahead and asked Drew if he would part with the boar and let us try to sneak in one, maybe two crops of pigs before his time runs out and fortunately Drew was open to it! As a 6yr old boar the convential ways to describe don't really apply...BUT...he still gets around the pen just fine and that alone is a testament to his structural integrity. He's big footed, stout skulled, and he still carries some muscle shape. When you saw him as a younger boar he was a long striding, easy moving kind of boar that was elevated in the shoulder, big bladed, and clean headed.

**Deceased - winter 2023-24 litters will be his last

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Jumper Cables x We're In (Reg# 161041001). Summer 2022 boar bred by and owned with Steve Meyer. Steve went to the tank and pulled out a couple doses of frozen Jumper Cables to make this one and then made sure he found his way to Iowa. Crank It Up fits in the lineup here in Fremont as more of a show pig sire. He has the look and feature in all the right places. Lots of extension, heavy bone, big feet, wide top, wide coming and going while still having depth of rib and age appropriate muscle pattern.

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Tic Toc x Hocus Pocus (Reg# 156947001). This home grown boar was the standout of our 2020 summer crop and one that will see heavy use around here. Lining up the old Hocus bloodlines created one that is super attractive profiled with the trademark clean extension up front that Hocus pigs all seemed to have. He's wide up top, he's wide at the ground, he's correct on all four corners with proper angles! And it's not going to be a surprise to anyone that that has followed our program for very long that he's pretty unique pedigree-wise, being an outcross to most Chester's in the county with no Hill Jack blood in his veins (no Jack in the Box, Box Office, Custom Made, etc). This is one that can be used in any herd in America to make those outcrossed, 'sleeper' females and we mean it when we say he keeps getting MORE impressive with age!

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Rescue Me x Big Bore. The saga continues with Triple Play. Triple Play was a young February boar shown by Tricia Veldhuizen at the 2022 Iowa State Fair. He had gotten into it with his penmate and wasn't showing his best but that didn't bother us any. If you reseach this pedigree, you'll see Rescue Me, Big Bore, and Rapid Response all in succession...all three of which lived here. We obviouly got to watch those three boars and their respective offspring. For a young boar, he has plenty of muscle shape in all the places you want it along with the stout skull that Big Bore tossed. He is really clean fronted which was falls in line with Rescue Me. And he profiles a lot like the old Rapid Response boar from his blade black. Triple Play maybe isn't the most unique pedigree to us but he's one that we're confident we can run back thru on our Old Habits and Nickels & Dimes pigs! On top of all of that, a littermate gilt also shown at ISF was flat out awesome so we have high hopes here!

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Catalyst x Mr Clean (Reg# 157018006). Private purchase from the heart of Ronnie Perry's herd down in Oklahoma. Ronnie had a a really good boar in Belton but we had caught wind that he might have left a better one at home so we inquired...as did others. Worth the Wait required a second trip to Oklahoma but he was absolutely worth it! Nearly perfect frame size on big feet. Bold rib shape and more than enough muscle. He tracks wide coming and going and angles to his bonework are where they are supposed to be.

**Sired Champion Chester White Boar - 2022 Iowa State Fair

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Hit The Road Jack x Trust First (Reg# 155589002) Online purchase from Boganwright's at the CPS Alternative Sale held in lieu of the 2020 Exposition. The old Hocus Pocus boar that we had was a generator but very few people sampled him and we don't get out to many shows so the world missed out. The same sow family of Hocus is back in behind this one which is what first grabbed our attention, his red hot littermate barrow also grabbed our attention after winning several big time, national,shows...and then when you see this guy, simply put he's a lot to take in. Find us a judge that wouldn't call this one a power hog and we'll buy you a cold pop. His bonework is MASSIVE...his feet are MASSIVE...his top is MASSIVE...and yet he's still an attractively made hog that ties it all together! If you're a car or motorcycle guy, you know that sometimes to get that extra power you need, you've gotta go to a bigger bore. Sadly, Big Bore's time was cut short but his one crop left their mark!

**Sired Res. Champion Chester Boar, 2021 Iowa State Fair

**Sired Res Champion Purebred Breeding gilt, Champion Purebred Owned and Bred Breeding Gilt, and Res Champion Purebred Market Hog, all at 2021 Polk County Fair (IA)

**Sired Res Overall Breeding Gilt, 2021 Franklin County Fair (IA)

**Sired Champion Purebred and Res Overall Breeding Gilt, 2021 Hardin County Fair (IA)

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Hocus Pocus x Hez Irresistable (Reg# 155253004). This home grown boar was the standout of our 2019 summer crop and one we used heavily for our summer 2020 litters. A very good litter out of some of our best producing sow lines! An all around complete hog that will help boost those maternal qualities that make both the show and commercial worlds go 'round. The Hocus sired pigs have some of the coolest front ends in the Chester breed in our opinion and this guy is no exception with a head carriage that seems to sit on top of his blade. Not to mention, by today's standards he's an old school pedigree. The clocks ticking on genetic diversity within in the Chester White breed and this is one that can be used in any herd in America to make those outcrossed, 'sleeper' females!

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Primal x Captain Benny (Reg# 154647003). 2019 purchase from Banisters at The Exposition. The boys both zero'd in on the same two boars at the show - after discussing them, this was the one we decided was the better fit for our program. A little different pedigree that most of what's out there and one that can even be traced back to a couple different boars we had here a few years ago. Smoothie is just that, one smooth cat, he just glides around the farm. A lot of extension, square at all four corners, and maybe a tick longer sided than most out there today (picture makes him look longer than he really is) but without sacrificing width and rib curvature.

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First Take x Nailed It (Reg# 153989004). 2019 Iowa State Fair purchase from the Veldhuizen family. We found this one walking back from the scales on check in day and basically followed him all the way back to the pen. Massive feet and legs, appropriate length of body, tall fronted, and he knows that he's a boar! This guy generated such an immediate and Rapid Response that we knew right away that we were going to do everything we could to get him loaded onto our trailer after the sale!

-Sired Res Champion Chester White Gilt at The National, 2020

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Punch Line x Bonecrusher (Reg# 150021003). 2017 SWTC purchase from Boganwright. Shares the same dam as Walk the Line, the $35,000 boar standing at Shaffer's - a great sow that generates high end pigs. Love to just sit and stare at him. So pretty with a clean up headed look, very square thru to the ground on all four corners, while being sound and fluid in his movement with great feet and legs. Loaded up with muscle and he can handle it! He stamped his hogs, litter after litter, with the extension that can be such a challenge.

-Sired Champion Chester White Boar 2018 Iowa State Fair

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Just in Time x Mack (Reg# 142974006). SWTC 2013 purchase from Armstrong's. Stood 2nd in class behind eventual Grand Champion (his littermate!). Four months after the show, while eating sow feed, he is still looking show ready. Big top, wide and square across his rump, bold-fronted and wide-chested. Feet and Legs are very good and he is sound. He's been a great one for us and we continued to use him until until the very end! One that will leave a lasting legacy for years to come!

-Sired Reserve Champion Chester Boar at 2014 National Barrow Show
-Sired Champion Chester White Weanling Gilt at 2014 SWTC

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Up on Blocks x Infusion (Reg# 151519002). SWTC 2018 purchase from Parkinson & Rodibaugh. There are heavy boned hogs and then there are HEAVY BONED HOGS - this guys fits in the 2nd group for sure! In our opinion, there wasn't a better Chester boar in the building off the back two legs. Couple that with being tall at the point of the shoulder with a clean, up headed look and we knew he was the one to bring back to Iowa!.

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Boomerang x Bull Top (Reg# 145400008). 2014 STC 2nd Class 2, purchased from M.D. Ideus, IL. In our opinion, the best boar MD has turned loose to date. Thick, square top, big butted, heavy/correct bone plus sound feet and legs. Moves with ease! His mother just had her 9th litter and has been a generator for MD. We absolutely love this guy. We have analyzed him over and over to see what's wrong with him and the only thing we can say is "Knot Much."

Step One x Amped Up. Private purchase from Goff Genetics. We looked all over the Midwest to find what we wanted and finally got a lead on this guy. When he walked off the trailer, we said we want our Yorks to look Just Like That! Yorks should be attractive profiled...and he is. Yorks should take a long smooth stride...and he does. Perhaps an unpopular view but Yorks shouldn't look like every cross barrow...he doesn't. Smooth natural muscle shape, proper feet and legs, small/tight ears, barrel ribbed and wide based in a slightly bigger frame - an old school York. Not a lot of fluff - just a dang good hog that we feel will make Yorkshire's better and get everybody saying that Yorks should look Just Like That!

**Deceased - Jan 2024 litters will be his last but we've retained several daughters as they are dang good

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Foot Works x High Country (Reg# 630809005). Res. Champion York Boar at 2019 Illinois State Fair, exhited by the Stoutenborough Family and bred by Brian Down. We knew we needed to find a York boar to follow up our old herd sire, See No Evil and after a couple phone calls from Illinois letting us know a couple good ones, we decided that Inside Out was the one we needed. Such a complete boar with a different blend of parts and pieces that what we see in a lot of current Yorks. Really good on his feet and legs, and little more length of body while still keeping a wide chest floor, a clean and extended front end and more than enough top shape but without taking it to far.

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Smack Down x Three Doors Down (Reg# 179449002). Best of the 2022 crop from Pink Genetics. Mike and the crew were on the fence with what to do with this one - show him or keep him close to home. A few phone calls back and forth and it was decided to keep him close. Power Glide, if you can't tell by his name, is an extremely heavy boned, moderate++ boar that just floats. He tracks wide and true. He's got big, correctly spaced toes and he's strong on his pasterns. But he's also really slick fronted with a shapely rib cage. Selfishly, we think he will be the perfect compliment to our Open Road pigs!

** Power Glide is deceased - but our entire summer 2023 crop of spots are sired by him so we felt it was appropriate to leave him right here on the website for now.

**Sired Res. Champion Spot Boar - 2023 Fall Classic

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Back Road x High Life (Reg# 172739002). 2020 STC purchase from Greg Sharber (OK). This guy spent Ohis first year in Illinois with Drew & Martin Voorhees before making his way to Iowa in early summer of 2021. A big, powerful boar that still has the look and natural top shape! As he has matured, he has kept that extra clean extension up front, he's still as authentically wide coming and going as he was in the show ring, and he STILL has proper pasterns and toes that all point straight north as an almost 3yr old boar - no soggy footed, dew claw dragging here! He's not the heaviest boned boar you've ever seen, we'll concede that...but he is oh so sound and that is a trait that we focus on maintaining in our herd. A little different twist in a spotted pedigree with a mix of old and new adds to the intrigue. You'd have to drive quite a few Open Roads to find one like this guy!

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Luke x Jarhead (Reg# 173138006). 2020 Champion 4-H Spotted Boar, Mo State Fair, bred by Miller Show Stock. Weren't looking for a spot boar but glad we took the call from our friends at Pink Genetics. This one has a super unique blend of parts and pieces and yet he's also 100% complete in how it ties together. Attractive profiled, big bladed, big footed, plenty of muscle, plenty of rib shape and dimension, naturally jacked up head and neck, etc. We've tried to find holes but can't - he might very well be the sleeper of the year in the spotted breed.

**Sired Champion 4-H and Open Spot Boar - 2022 Missouri State Fair

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Storm Warning x Heist (Reg# 174036005). Private treaty purchase from Sieren Swine Farm. A chance text message asking about bottles led us to finding out that this guy existed. Slick fronted, big even toes, powered up but not excessive, long fluid stride, and he's an outcross to most spots in America today. Jayme didn't have to share interest in this boar but he allowed us to buy in, move him here and put him to work. Sadly, Twister's time with us was cut short but not before some really intriguing hogs hit the ground.

**Sired Champion Spot Boar, 2021 Iowa State Fair

**Premier Sire, 2021 Iowa State Fair

**Sired Champion 4-H Spot Boar, 2021 Missouri State Fair

**Sired Res. Champion Purebred Market Hog, 2021 Franklin County Fair (IA)

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In Focus x Happy Feet (Reg# 154420006). Albertson Bros. 2014 private treaty purchase from Rick Ott (OK). Picture doesn't do justice to the smooth level top, lots of bone, and good feet. Really heavy muscled and as much chest floor as you could ever want.