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Spring Summer Fall 2011
		Minnesota Customer Rebuilds After Tornado After an F4 tornado leveled Shane Christensen’s two year old, 2,400-head, wean-to-finish barn last summer, he knew right away what he wanted to do in the aftermath. “The first thing on my mind was getting everything organized to rebuild and keep going,” says Christensen, who raises pigs for the Lukes Brothers operation near Alden, MN
		Quality Equipment for Quality Pigs Tracy Lorenzen operates a Yorkshire breeding stock business for the show pig market with his father, Dave, and brother, Tony, in Chrisman, IL. The family exhibits at two or three national livestock shows each year to create interest in their herd. Prize winners bring customers. “You have to sell what people want,” says Tracy.