{"id":11063,"date":"2016-05-25T08:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2016-05-25T08:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:47:27","slug":"from-the-field-with-jackson-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/2016\/from-the-field-with-jackson-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Field with Jackson Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a great first two weeks as the field staff intern for the National Swine Registry (NSR). I have spent the majority of my time thus far traveling with the Northwest Field Representative, Michael Lackey, and the Eastern Field Representative, Blaine Evans. Traveling with them has allowed me to visit a variety of breeders who share their personal\u00a0views on breeding hogs. My experiences on the road so\u00a0far range from Tracy Lorenzen giving me a hard time while looking at young herd sire prospects to babysitting young Anders Baade while his dad, Kyle, showed Michael Lackey and me\u00a0a group of powerhouse boars in stud. It has been an awesome time so far getting to interact with breeders and seeing some of their sow herds and keeper females. Although, each breeder may like a different style of hog, the one thing that you can tell within each herd is that feet and legs are so\u00a0important. We have seen a lot of hogs planning to come\u00a0to the World Pork Expo (WPX)\u00a0in ten days, and it will be exciting to see how they all fit in with each other and where they end up falling in each class. With a record number of open show entries, it will be another great show. From my travels to the numerous jackpots in the Midwest and hearing the buzz around them, the National Junior Swine Association (NJSA) shows at Expo will be tremendous as well! Everyone needs to get their rest and gear up for another exciting year at\u00a0WPX, because from what I\u2019ve seen, it\u2019s going to be fun!<\/p>\n

– Jackson<\/h5>\n
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\u00a0Jackson Johnson is currently a Junior at Purdue University studying for his degree in Agriculture Economics. Originally from Poneto, Indiana, Johnson grew up showing hogs through the NJSA and breeding Durocs and Hampshires with his family. His passion for purebred hogs started at a very young age and has only grown from there. Johnson is looking forward to being able to talk to and meet\u00a0breeders from across the country to learn their philosophies about breeding hogs.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been a great first two weeks as the field staff intern for the National Swine Registry (NSR). I have spent the majority of my time thus far traveling with the Northwest Field Representative, Michael Lackey, and the Eastern Field Representative, Blaine Evans. Traveling with them has allowed me to visit a variety of breeders who share their personal\u00a0views on breeding hogs. My experiences on the road so\u00a0far range from Tracy Lorenzen giving me a hard time while looking at young herd sire prospects to babysitting young Anders Baade while his dad, Kyle, showed Michael Lackey and me\u00a0a group of powerhouse boars in stud. It has been an awesome time so far getting to interact with breeders and seeing some of their sow herds and keeper females. Although, each breeder may like a different style of hog, the one thing that you can tell within each herd is that [ …<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-nsr-fieldview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalswine.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}