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Glenn grilling pork at an event in Rapid City with Ronda Snyder, who coordinates SDPPC promotion and consumer education in the Black Hills region. Photo courtesy SDPPC.

Herefords from the Muller herd at the Excellence South Dakota Hereford Sale in Brookings in November 2020. Glenn attended South Dakota State University where he majored in ag education and animal science. He described his professional career as a “jigsaw puzzle.” After college, he had three different stints as an agriculture teacher. He farmed fulltime from 1976-1983, before moving farm work to part-time status when he worked at a Canton bank in the 1980s.

Prior to joining the pork council, he worked at Smithfield Foods for 13 years. “I started in procurement and ended up in risk management.” The family sold their sows when he joined Smithfield as a precaution against moving disease one direction or another.

Together, Glenn and Joan raised four children. Son Scott is a livestock truck driver for Prime Time Trucking. His girlfriend, Amie Larsen, is a cook at the school in Hurley. They live in Hurley. Glenn and Joan’s son Steven owns Midwest Sonotech, a carcass evaluation firm. He’s also part of Muller Cattle and has a herd of his own near Onida, S.D. His wife, Amy Sutton-Muller, does marketing and event production for Sutton Rodeo and is a timer for PRCA. They have two children: Shaden, 8, and Shally, 4. Shaden is a vocal soloist and has sung the national anthem at rodeos.

Their daughter Shelly is a cosmetologist in Sioux Falls. She and her husband, Cory Altena, farm near George, Iowa, and run Altena Show Cattle. They have two daughters: Kinsly, 12, and Keilahny, 5. Kinsly captured the junior beef showman title in her first trip to the American Royal in Kansas City last year. Glenn and Joan’s daughter Sarah is a lab quality manager at Poet’s Chancellor plant plus operates Vogele Show Cattle near Lennox with her husband, Shannon, and their children, Cash, 16, and Sage, 14. Cash and Sage have shown champion pigs at both the Iowa State Fair and Aksarben.

“Our whole family has been involved in the cattle business. We’ve always had cattle around the farm,” Glenn said. “We run a small herd of cows, primarily commercial with a few purebred Herefords. All of our family has been involved in building the caliber of our herd. We sell cattle at the Excellence Sale, the state Hereford sale. And we’ll typically go to Rapid City with some cattle for the Black Hills Stock Show.” Joan said their children were highly involved in 4-H, FFA and Open shows when they were growing up. They showed cattle, pigs and sheep. Glenn said, “Our kids gained a lot in 4-H and FFA … the people they met, the experiences they had, and the leadership qualities they developed. I think they developed their work ethic by being on a small farm and giving their livestock that extra care … knowing what it takes to feed one right to get it to the point where it will be more competitive. If you’re going to be successful, you’ve got to work.” Joan agreed, “I think it made our kids well-rounded individuals. And now we’ve got the next generation. It’s fun to watch the grandkids do what their parents did. They’re in it to win it.”