You might not have cared to know the recommended trucking practices for pigs or other livestock, but Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin is happy to explain all of that and more. She’s got videos too.

Perhaps you know somebody who made a new year’s resolution to improve the way they truck their livestock?

So here I am looking up things to do in Oregon and I come accross the Tillamook Chamber of Commerce’s guide to local attractions and its note about the Pig-n-Ford races:

Vintage vehicles, daring drivers and squealing porkers. Mixed together, the outcome can only be described as frenzied farm-style fun. Most people would agree that individuals who race Model-T Fords must be strange to begin with. When competitors insist on carrying pigs as passengers, however, it’s a sure sign of a rare breed of driver. Yet pigs do race in Model-T’s at the Tillamook County Fair.

And then I found the official Pig-n-Ford website, where they’ve got pictures, race stats, and history:

The first Pig-N-Ford Race took place at the Tillamook County Fair in 1925. The idea for the race happened when a couple Tillamook County residents were transporting some pigs and one got loose. They proceded to chase the pig in their Model-T Fords and had so much fun trying to catch, and drive with the pesky pig that they thought “let’s do this at the Fair.”

oregon, tillamook or, tillamook, pig, pigs, porker, pig-n-ford race, pig-n-ford, ford, model-t, model-t ford