Beaverhead County produced multiple prize-winning swine recognized this year by the most recent Montana Symbol of Excellence (SOE) Standards designations.Including one tabbed as the state’s heavyweight champ.“She was pretty big—295 pounds,” said Dillon’s Guy Holt of Missy, the top swine in the heavy carcass division announced last month by the state’s SOE program that celebrates swine that meet carcass merit standards and demonstrate a “commitment to excellence in producing quality pork products” in their 4-H and FFA youth owners and breeders.“She was about 50 pounds when we got her, about the size of a big puppy,” recalled Guy, a seventh ...
