Swine Project

Project Description 

The Swine Project is an excellent way to learn about the pork industry. Through this project, you can learn about all aspects of the pork industry, either by directly caring for a hog or by learning about swine. At any level you may enroll in market pig or breeding pig. Youth wishing to enroll in Market Swine or Breeding Swine must also be enrolled in Level 1, 2, or 3.

If you enroll in the independent study, you are expected to have already completed the three levels of the swine project and to have set some learning goals for your independent work.

Project Requirements

Project Books Required?: 1st year only

Project books can be purchased here

Introduction to Raising Swine Presentation(PDF, 165KB)

*** Each member must attend 2 workshops per the market project area to take your market animal to fair. Workshops are defined as an educational exercise lead by a project sup.

What needs to be accomplished to move on to level 2?

• Complete level 1 and attend 2 workshops throughout the year
• 3 years in the project

What needs to be accomplished to move on to level 3?

• Complete level 2 and attend 2 workshops throughout the year
• 6 years in the project

Project age limit? 8 and up

Dates for the 2024-2025 4-H Year

• November 17th - New Family Workshop & Quality Assurance at 12:00 p.m. in the Bill Hamilton Building
• December 15th - K & S Meats at 10:00 a.m. in the Bill Hamilton Building
• January 14th - CHS Feed at 6:00 p.m. in Headwaters Covenant Church 
• February 16th - John Rauser's in Townsend at 10:00 a.m.
• March 16th - Ultrasounding at 11:00 a.m. in the Bill Hamilton Building
• March 26th - Anna National Pork Producers at 5:30 p.m. in the Bill Hamilton Building
• April 13h - Showmanship by Frani Volpe & Brooklyn Novak in the Back of the Bill Hamilton Building 
• April 15th - Possession Date
• April 17th - Swine Tagging Forms due by 5:00 p.m.
• April 27th - Swine Tagging at 10:00 p.m. in the Bill Hamilton Building Scale House
• June TBD - Open Scale Night Bill Hamilton Building Scale House
• July - Email with details about fair and expectations 

Project Superintendent Information

Swine Superintendent: Katie Grady- Selby & Brandon Dearing
Contact: katiegrady18@icloud.com or 406-202-1802
              dearingbrandon68@gmail.com or 406-461-1780

How will you be contacted? Text and email

Lewis & Clark Swine Project Facebook Page

Junior Superintendent: Emily Dearing, Tucker Selby, Tanner Selby, Brooklynn Novak

2025 Swine Tagging

Possession date: Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

Tagging form(s) due: Thursday, April 17th, 2025 by 5:00 p.m.

Tagging date: Sunday, April 27th, 2025

10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Bill Hamilton Building Scale House

Swine Tagging Form

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Montana State University and the Montana State University Extension Service prohibit discrimination in all of their programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital and family status. Issued in furtherance of cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Jeff Bader, Director of Extension, Extension Service, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717