When Duane and Janette Braaten transformed Farm to Market Pork from a hog farm into a meat processing and retail facility in 1985, the plan was to create a local market for high-quality locally raised pork.
Now, the national trend for eating locally grown foods has led to an increased awareness of not only where, but also how the bacon and pork chops are produced.
“That’s really been in our favor,” Duane Braaten said. He has witnessed huge growth in the demand for local products throughout his 25 years in business as a meat producer.
Braaten takes an all-natural approach to farming, prohibiting the use of hormones or antibiotics. He doesn’t buy animals from other farms, but relies instead on his own breeding program to produce the meat sold under the Farm to Market Pork label.
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