For more than 80 years, PIPESTONE has been serving our mission of Helping Farmers Today Create the Farms of Tomorrow.

In 1942, Drs. E.A. Schweim and P.A. Pinkert founded the Pipestone Veterinary Clinic as a large animal veterinary practice. Dr. G.F. Kennedy (Doc) joined the practice in 1960 and helped grow the clinic into what it is today, the largest swine veterinary clinic in the United States.

Pipestone Management was founded in 1988. In 1990 Hiawatha Gilts, LTD was built and became the first PIPESTONE-managed sow farm. Hiawatha was a 700 sow, state-of-the-art, farrow-to-finish farm owned by area farmers. The farm is still in operation today as a 2,500 sow farrow to wean farm, representing the forward-thinking leadership PIPESTONE brings to family farmers.

PIPESTONE has evolved to provide resources and expert services in pig health, management, nutrition, research, and business all designed to support the individual family farmer.

Today, PIPESTONE proudly works with over 1,500 farmers, serving our mission of Helping Farmers Today Create the Farms of Tomorrow. We seek to enhance the family farm; living our core values provides the foundation to help our pig farmers be the very best in the world.