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Drive-Up Boar Semen

NPR
Published February 14, 1996 at 11:00 PM CST

NPR'S Edward Lifson reports on what is believed to be the first drive-up boar semen facility. Run by the Fox family in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the artificial insemination facility provides semen from high-quality boars for Iowa's growing hog industry. When a farmer has a sow that is ready to be artificially inseminated, he just drives up and picks up his order.

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