Berkshire pig
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Berkshire pig".
Sep 30, 2026
MelissaHOST
It shows what you've put into your pig, yes.
AubreyHOST
This year, I have a Berkshire, which I got at 85 pounds.
AubreyHOST
And her name is Porkchop.
AubreyHOST
And I want to make sure I not only win Showmanship, but I want Grand Champion.
Eddie Firestone Jr.VOICE_ACTOR
We better have the best pork chops from great big pigs.
Francis RobinsonVOICE_ACTOR
Oh, the best pork chops come from the medium type, like the Berkshire and the Hampshire.
Eddie Firestone Jr.VOICE_ACTOR
Hey, Claire, listen to our waitress.
Francis RobinsonVOICE_ACTOR
Oh, I was raised on a farm.
Robert BaileyVOICE_ACTOR
Say, how's our pupil getting along?
Francis RobinsonVOICE_ACTOR
I don't know about Kathy, but whenever I close my eyes, I see pigs.
Francis RobinsonVOICE_ACTOR
Yorkshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Durham.
Robert BaileyVOICE_ACTOR
Hey, you know your pigs all right.
Dave ChangHOST
I gotta tell you one quick story before we get into this question.
Dave ChangHOST
We were one of the first, if not the first, restaurant in America to really celebrate Berkshire pork to the point I wanted to use Niman Ranch, but it was too expensive.
Dave ChangHOST
So I found some farmers in Iowa, developed a relationship, and all of a sudden, Berkshire pork, because our pork bun started to go crazy.
Dave ChangHOST
Everyone at the time wanted to learn more about Berkshire pork.
Dave ChangHOST
I got a call from some giant meat distributor that I didn't know was a meat distributor.
Dave ChangHOST
They wanted to come in and, like, really use us to talk about the growth of Berkshire pork, and I want to work with small co-ops, et cetera.
Dave ChangHOST
And they were like, "Oh, no, no. We're a co-op." I'm like, "Okay." A- and these guys are in suits.
Dave ChangHOST
They look like they just came from, like, midtown Manhattan.
Marc FennellHOST
It's snuffling around looking for food, and it trots across an invisible border right into a farmer's garden, and not, it has to be said, for the first time.
Mike VouriGUEST
So this rooting pig, a Berkshire boar, had been disrupting root crops, mainly potatoes.
Marc FennellHOST
But on this day, the trespassing pig just sends this farmer over the edge.
Mike VouriGUEST
So he takes his rifle off the wall, goes outside, chases the pig to the end of, edge of the woods and shoots it, kills it.
10 MINS LATER
Mike VouriGUEST
And he established a, a little hut with a garden just north of the Hudson's Bay Company home establishment.
Marc FennellHOST
In his garden, Cutler was growing mainly potatoes, and from time to time he would have an unwelcome visitor.
Mike VouriGUEST
So this rooting pig, a Berkshire boar, had been wandering into Lyman Cutler's garden and had been disrupting his root crops.
Mike VouriGUEST
And so Cutler went down to Griffin and said, "You've got to keep that pig out of my potatoes." And Griffin said, "Well, you scruffy little man, keep your potatoes out of my pig.
Paul YeagerHOST
Why them? And tell me about how your animals are raised.
Anna PesekGUEST
Yeah, so we raise purebred, farrow to finish, Berkshire hogs.
Anna PesekGUEST
Sometimes when people see our pigs, you know, they do feel like it's reminiscent of an Iowa in the past.
Anna PesekGUEST
We're not trying to go backwards, right? There's lots of challenges, but it is reminiscent of a previous moment of Iowa agriculture.
Michael KummerHOST
And what breed is that?
Chester BidmeadGUEST
And then we're doing the Berkshire, the Gloucester Old Spots.
Chester BidmeadGUEST
And then we've also just bought in the Idaho Pasture Pig.
Michael KummerHOST
Those are the ones that we raise here.
6 MINS LATER
Chester BidmeadGUEST
wouldn't die.
Chester BidmeadGUEST
And the same with the pigs.
Chester BidmeadGUEST
And that's actually why we chose originally the Berkshire and the Gloucester Old Spots because traditionally they're large pigs.
Chester BidmeadGUEST
So they give you a lot of fat.