All feed is ground on their farm with the exception of a prestarter fed to weaned pigs for seven days. The brothers use split-sex and phase feeding, and market hogs at 270 pounds. Olson sells an average of 80 boars and 200 gilts each year mainly to smaller producers in Eastern Iowa. He sells some semen to producers interested in producing their own replacement gilts. All animals sold as breeding stock are scanned with real-time ultrasound.
Facilities are mainly open-lot.
Minn. However, he places more emphasis on participation in the production testing at Iowa test stations.