Only official Hogs for the Cause 2026 teams may enter a photo.  Only 1 photo may be entered per team.

⏵ Photo Entry fee: Free 
          Submit only high-resolution photos (300 DPI as TIFF, PDF, or highest quality JPEG files).  Lard and In Charge reserves            the right to reject offensive or inappropriate photos.

⏵ Voting Fee: $1 (per 1 vote)

⏵ Contest Dates:

Entering: 10:00 AM (Central Time) on Monday, February 9, 2026 to 11:00 PM (Central Time) on Friday, March 6, 2026

Voting: 12:00 AM (Central Time) on Thursday, March 5, 2026 to 12:00 AM (Central Time) on Thursday, March 19, 2026

Lard and In Charge, a Louisiana non-profit and 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, is competing once again at the 2026 Hogs for the Cause barbecue competition on April 10th and 11th to raise money for the fight against pediatric brain cancer and to support affected families. Lard and in Charge has raised over $150,000 for Hogs for the Cause since our founding, and we need your help to raise a record-breaking $50,000 for Hogs for the Cause this year!

We founded Lard and in Charge back in 2016 as a group of young professionals and amateur barbequers to have fun and raise money for a good cause.  In the years since, we’ve upped our barbeque game, winning the inaugural Nueske’s Bacon Night for our deep-fried, bacon-wrapped plantain and being declared the 2021 High-on-the-Hog Grand Champions.  Our story has been told in  The Gambit, Eater, and on a live Fox8 News cooking demo, with one local news outlet describing our success this way:

In a field of teams consisting of 30 to 50 members, the Lards got it done with less than a dozen dedicated barbecue warriors.  ‘The Lards were crowned Grand Champions over a field of teams that included renowned chefs like Tory McPhail and the some of the city’s top BBQ joints, such as Blue Oak BBQ and Crescent City BBQ.  While most teams have thousands of dollars in equipment and professional cook teams, the Lards were crowned Grand Champs with a team of three home BBQ cooks, two Camp Chef pellet smokers and some BBQ loving warriors.