High feed prices. The ongoing global spread of African swine fever. Trade challenges. There certainly is no shortage of potential supply-chain disrupters for the pork industry in a post-COVID-19 world.
The Pork Checkoff’s May producer webinar features Jayson Lusk, distinguished professor and head of the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University. He will be discussing his thoughts on the “5 Potential Disrupters to the Pork Supply Chain in the world after COVID-19" on Wednesday, May 19 at 1:30 p.m.
Lusk is a food and agricultural economist who studies what we eat and why we eat it. Since 2000, he has published more than 200 journal articles in peer reviewed journals, including several of the most cited papers in the profession. In 2007, Lusk co-authored a book on experimental auctions and coauthored an undergraduate textbook on agricultural marketing and price analysis. In 2011, hereleased a book co-authored with Bailey Norwood on the economics of farm animal welfare and also co-edited the Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy. In 2013 he published the popular book, The Food Police. His latest popular book is Unnaturally Delicious: How Science and Technology are Serving up Super Foods to Save the World.
Webinar participants will learn what disrupters may affect the pork supply chain and possible ways to prepare and recover from the impact they may have on the entire pork industry.
To register, click here.
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