{"id":110279,"date":"2018-12-06T04:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T09:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=110279"},"modified":"2018-12-06T04:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T09:23:23","slug":"cooper-farms-creates-hog-growing-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/12\/06\/cooper-farms-creates-hog-growing-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Farms creates hog-growing video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OAKWOOD &#8212; Cooper Farms has released a video series on hog farming and environmental care on the company\u2019s social media platforms and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>As Cooper Farms continues to grow and builds relationships in new areas, the videos will serve as a way for the company to introduce itself, explain what it does and the opportunities it offers people to be contract growers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-107865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cooper-Farms-80th-anniversary-logo-150px-10-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" \/>\u201cWe\u2019re growing. We\u2019re always getting new neighbors and we want to be clear to those people, and with those who already know us, about what it is we do,\u201d said Director of Live Production Terry Wehrkamp.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Farms partners with local family farms to raise animals. These videos will show the procedures the company follows to have the least possible impact on the environment, and especially, the neighboring communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a reputation of being good neighbors,\u201d said Wehrkamp. \u201cIt\u2019s not just something we say, it\u2019s something we do. We want to be transparent with our neighbors and show them that we want to do things the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Farms uses a very intricate process when it comes to choosing not only its sites for new barns, but the type of quality leaders necessary to run them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we enter into a partnership with a grower, it\u2019s a decades-long partnership,\u201d said Wehrkamp. \u201cBecause of that, we put a lot of effort into getting to know each other up front and getting to know the management style of that farmer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first video, \u201cBecoming a Cooper Farms Grower,\u201d has now been released on social media and YouTube, with an additional installment released per month through April 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information OAKWOOD &#8212; Cooper Farms has released a video series on hog farming and environmental care on the company\u2019s social media platforms and YouTube. As Cooper Farms continues to grow and builds relationships in new areas, the videos will serve as a way for the company to introduce itself, explain what it does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 03:19:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}