Bob Ivey: In the span of 35 years,Bob Ivey has built three hog productin systens from scratch

摘要

The first was the family-owned and operated Ivey Spring Creek Farm (ISCF) near Goldsboro, NC, which began modestly in 1979, with select purebred Chester White and Spotted bloodlines that grew to 250 sows with the help of a low-interest, Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loan during the Carter administration. Select lines of Durocs, Landrace and Large Whites were imported from Denmark in the early '90s, and the ISCF nucleus herd grew to over 2,200 purebred sows, its current size.The next opportunity arose in 1989, when the Maxwell family (Maxwell Foods, Inc.) decided to diversify their turkey enterprise and better utilize the excess feed processing capacity of Goldsboro Milling. Bob Ivey developed a three-site production concept, unique at the time.