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TANDEM was the Grand Champion Landrace Boar at the 1983 Iowa State Fair and his littermate was the Reserve Grand Boar.
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TANDEM excels in the physical traits necessary for swine to adapt to confinement. He is a heavy skeleton, super sound and free moving boar with extremely big feet and even, wide spread toes. He has ideal shoulder and front leg design with his blades pulled wide apart at the top and his chine bone set down between his blades. In addition he is a very level-topped boar with excellent rump and rear leg structure.
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TANDEM’s sire, Travis 24-9, has consistently sired stout-made Landrace for Iowa State University. His dam is sired by the imported Norwegian boar, Dunn, who excelled in the Norwegian Performance test program.
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TANDEM’s maternal granddam and great granddam had the following life-time sow production records, respectively : 5 litters, 10.4 born, 9.9 weaned and 145 lb 21 day wt: 12 litters: 13.1 born, 10.6 weaned and 153 lb 21 day weight. His paternal granddam was a littermate to the 1981 National Barrow Show Champion boar and has a lifetime average of 10 born, 9.5 weaned and 147 lb 21 day weight.
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TANDEM combines outstanding phenotypic design with an ancestoral background strong in the sow productivity traits for which Landrace are noted.
