This year, the Iowa Pork Producers Association “combined the Iowa Pork Queen and Premier Pork Youth Ambassador contests into one competition this year and is no longer naming an Iowa Pork Princess.”
Tama County’s Christy Calderwood ended her reign as Pork Queen at the Iowa Pork Congress at the end of January. Iowa and Ohio have been the only states with a Pork Queen for a quarter-century, after Illinois and South Dakota eliminated theirs.
God save the Pork Queen, or nobody will.
(Yes, this is nearly two months old. That stack of Spokesmans doesn’t read itself.)