From Holsteins to Hogs

During the four years he worked at the association, Hershey started dating Jill Dorminy (they later married). Through Jill’s church, Hershey met a man named Donny Beaver.

About that time, Beaver and Ben Stapelfeld (current chairman of New Pig) bought an industrial cleaning company. Recalls Hershey, “They would clean manufacturing facilities. One job was to put down an absorbent granular material to soak up all the spilt machinery oils. They got this idea for a 4-foot sock to encase the absorbent material and make it less messy.” The “Pig” was born.