An Indiana farming community comes together to buy a boy's hog at auction for a record $102-thousand to support his family as their mother fights terminal cancer. Several years ago, Ashlee Duttlinger was diagnosed with colon cancer. She was able to beat it once, but then it came back and the battle became so much, hospice was called in to care for the 38-year-old mother of two.
At this year’s Porter County Fair, Ashlee’s ten-year-old son Hudson entered his 300-pound female pig and won the Reserve Grand Champion title. And then later his prize-winning pig was auctioned off at the 4-H Celebration Sale. Jonathan and Anna Kraft, who run the auction and are good friends with the Duttlingers, organized a bidding group to help support the family.
Pigs at a 4-H auction typically go for about $2.50 a pound, but on this night, bidding for Hudson’s pig quickly went past $100 and didn’t stop until it hit $340 a pound for a grand total of $102-thousand. All of the money from the sale of the pig will go into a scholarship fund for the Duttlinger’s two sons. And since the pig was bought by a group of over 100 different donors, the pork will be donated to the Food Bank of Northern Indiana to feed families in need.
Source: AG Daily
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