Producers: a curly tale with Bundarra Berkshires pig farm

By Richard Cornish
Updated November 7 2014 - 10:23am, first published September 2 2014 - 3:23pm

There is a small tin shed sitting in the shade of a river red gum not far from the banks of the Murray River. Inside is a woman, tall and athletic, a boning knife in one hand. She works the tip of the blade in and around bones transforming a whole pig, weighing almost as much as her, into little cuts of pork. Lauren Mathers is a mother of two. She is also a pig farmer with 40 breeding sows grazing at Bundarra Berkshires, the farm she owns with her husband Lachlan, just outside of Barham in southern New South Wales, about 100km north-west of Echuca.

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