There wasn’t a dry eye in the barn when Samantha Nicole Iselt of Lexington, Texas, was named the exhibitor of the Grand Champion Market Barrow at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.
The Missouri Pork Association presented awards to Scott Phillips and Senator Mike Bernskoetter, and six students competed in FFA speaking contest finals at the expo.
If you don’t spend time around kids in the pork industry, you need to start. Check out this first in a series of videos of their stories and hear the enthusiasm in their words and their voices for yourself.
PORK Perspectives is a recurring column providing leadership strategy tips from some of the industry’s finest. Meet Dari Brown, senior director – livestock technical innovation for Purina Animal Nutrition.
Jacob Handsaker of Radcliffe, Iowa, has been named the 2020 Emerging Iowa Leader by the Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Morgan Thayer, a Purdue University graduate student, says the greatest challenge for the next generation in the swine industry is forming a trusting producer-consumer relationship regarding the way farmers produce pork.
One of the biggest components of a successful, healthy operation is human capital, and how managers and veterinarians interact with the farm staff needs not be rocket science.
Matli is a sow farm manager for Borgic Farms in Nokomis. This farm has 10,000 sows that produce piglets for their grower partners. He has been with the Borgic team for 17 years.
Every time a celebrity or brand comes out with an announcement we don’t agree with, it can send us running for our keyboards to type out a rant. Is this helping build bridges or making the walls even taller?
Joseph F. Connor, D.V.M., M.S., Carthage, is the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the Illinois Pork Producers Association. Dr. Connor is founder of Carthage Veterinary Service, LTD in Carthage, IL.
Each year, the Illinois Pork Producers Association honors a pork producing family who has contributed to the long-term success of the industry through leadership and pork promotion on the local and state levels.
During the 2020 Illinois Pork Producers Association annual meeting on Tuesday, Dale Weitekamp of Raymond, Ill., was elected to serve as president for the coming year.
