Gengler Feed

Angie and Matt Schnepf were honored as Iowa’s 2021 Pork All-Americans at the Iowa Pork Congress in January 2022. The IPPA Pork All-American award honors producers 40 years of age or younger who have established themselves as community leaders and successful and dedicated business people. Matt and Angie were part of the 2013 class of Master Pork Producers. Max, Angie, Mick, Matt and Mitchell Schnepf.

Service is Our Business

To supplement the farm’s income, Matt and Loren got into the business of trucking livestock about 20 years ago. Matt manages and schedules the trucks. However, Loren said, “I drive more than he does. I’m on the long hauls because he needs to stay around here and keep everything running. I'm gone a lot in the fall with the truck loading calves, so he pretty well runs the farm. The trucking works pretty well as a part of our operation and it also keeps employees busy in the offseason.”

Loren said they buy cattle from select ranches in Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana. “We’ve made personal relationships with a lot of ranchers and become very good friends. We know what their cattle are going to do. I know what they look like before I get them and I can tell you what their performance will be because they've done it every year.”

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RUNNING FOR PARTS AND VACCINATING PIGS

Sandy retired last year from the U.S. Postal Service after 34 years of service in Oyens, Alton and Merrill. She now spends a lot of time attending sports and other activities of their 13 grandchildren. Matt said, “Mom also gets a lot of calls to pick us up or go get parts.” Sandy said, “I’ll run wherever they need me to go and get whatever they need me to get.” Angie has been a preschool teacher for the MMCRU district in Marcus for 10 years, but Matt puts her to work on the farm in the summer, helping to vaccinate the pigs and load them out. Loren and Sandy’s daughters – Stephanie, Cheri, and Lori –