The best way to bring home the bacon might be to call for it with flair at the Iowa State Fair.
Bill Yount, 65, of St. Marys, won first place in this year’s adult hog calling contest with a series of calls to bring a pig home and draw it away from a peacock and a sheep pen. Yount mimicked those animals’ sounds as well.
It was Yount’s third time winning the top prize, having competed for six years.
He grew up in Jesup and lived in Greenfield until last year’s tornado. But he still works in Greenfield as an insurance agent and substitute bus driver.
Yount said the students he drove on a bus for the Nodaway Valley Community School District encouraged him to become a competitor, after he entertained them with “animal sound Thursday.”
Youth participated in their own division of the Friday, Aug. 15 hog calling contest in the fair as well.
Emberlyn Evison, 10, of Carlisle, won first place.
Phillip Sitter covers the suburbs for the Des Moines Register. Phillip can be reached via email at psitter@gannett.com. Find out more about him online in the Register’s staff directory.
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