![]() ![]() In addition to bacon, the company sells loins, chops, roasts and tenderloins. Natural developmentīuffalo Gal uses two facilities, one in Minnesota and one in Wisconsin, to process its wild boar. “We’ve got some people we’ve known over the years that raise the same Eurasians and we’ve just kept getting the bellies from them because it’s been a constant battle to try and keep enough supply,” Fogel said. When necessary, Buffalo Gal will outsource Eurasian wild boar bellies from a producer in Canada. Fogel said the product works well beyond bacon served in traditional ways and suggests it for soups and mixed into hamburger patties.īuffalo Gal slaughters 20 to 30 boar a month, but it’s not always enough to keep up with the demand for the $17.95 per pound bacon. The Buffalo Gal Wild Boar Bacon contains less fat and produces far less grease than bacon from other types of swine, especially commodity type bellies. “We started doing the bacon, and we developed a real good market for the bacon – in fact, to the point where we couldn’t keep up. Once the game preserve and hunt market dried up, Fogel pivoted and moved to the wild boar meat market. Now they know what we’re doing and leave us alone.” We went through a period where they would come and check on me and check my fences and everything. I didn’t want to quit because if I quit, they could never be on our ranch again. “We’d send a semi at a time and we got pretty big in it, but that market just dried up. “Ted Nugent had a game preserve in Michigan, and we’d sell wild boar over there,” Fogel said. Originally, he sold them to game preserves for hunts. Fogel began raising the Eurasian wild boars over 40 years ago. Raising the Eurasian wild boar pays off with a bacon voted Best “wild” Bacon by Fox News in 2017 and one of the “Best Bacons Known to Man” in 2020 by men’s lifestyle website “The Manual,” but it didn’t start with bacon. You’re not going to just let them run wild if you’ve got a lot invested in them.” Truly wild ![]() While the general wild boar all lumped together get blamed for wrecking habitat and killing deer among other things, Fogel said ranchers and farmers raising the authentic Eurasians do so for the meat and pay close attention to the boars, their housing and containment, health, etc. ![]()
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