About The Vault Genes
Our History
The Vault began like most good ideas do, on a vacation to de-stress ourselves from all the other obligations we do. The love of raising good livestock and desire to help others is what has taken this idea and turned it into, The Vault. We are a group of friends, who have become "framily", sharing a goal of producing high quality show pigs both for the show ring and the gestation barn. .
Our Team
Meet the Strueh Family!
(Pronounced like S-tree)
Kurt, Lynn, Ashley, Zach, and Rachel have been raising and showing livestock since the 1990s. Kurt was raised showing Suffolk sheep while Lynn focused on showing horses and Hereford cattle. They truly thought their kids would follow in their passions, but their kids definitely fell in love with raising and showing pigs. Since 2017, the Strueh family has been farrowing and showing pigs at the county, state and national level. Their family is proud of the team effort that has made their pigs successful not only in the show ring, but also in the farrowing crates. Raising pigs has taught our family the importance of the time we spend together and the blessings of friendships made through exhibiting livestock.
Our Team
Meet the Nichols Family!
Woody, Kayla, Sadie and Saige have been raising livestock for the last several years, but after Sadie and Saige fell in love with pigs, they decided to brush off the dust on their family's old farrowing crates and start back up the tradition of raising pigs. Woody grew up farrowing about 100 sows, primarily durocs, and sold them nationwide. Kayla had much smaller operations; farrowing out about 10 sows each year for her 4-H career. The Nichols Family own and operate Prairie View Ag Supply, a feed and supply store in central Indiana, are first generation row-crop farmers, and raise show goats and cattle, in addition to show pigs.
