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A round-up of new hires within the U.S. pork industry.

From labor to technology, the opportunities to improve tomorrow’s pork operation continue to expand. We asked five industry leaders to share perspectives, including what producers should think about in 2022.

After a national, farmer-led search process, the Minnesota Pork Producers Association (MPPA) announces Jill Resler will be the organization’s next CEO.

Putting time into on-boarding greatly increases employee confidence and ensures they feel like they can help the farm and be seen as a contributing member of the team. Here’s how on-boarding has improved retention.

After 30 years working in the field of rural mental health, Ted Matthews understands the factors that stress farmers and knows how to help them.

Purdue reported 23 fatalities related to grain bin entrapment in 2019. These stories haunted a city-dwelling film producer, Sam Goldberg, prompting him to share the dangers in putting food on the world’s table.

The Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council announced the hiring of its first full-time state executive director.

It’s not about the money. It’s not about fame. As Adam Sanders’ song continues, “And believe me, it ain’t ever been easy to play this game.” Probably no truer words could be said about life in the pork industry.

Where does farming’s ‘people problem’ start? Aidan Connolly takes a look at the war for talent and what that means for the pork industry when it comes to finding, training, motivating and keeping the best workers.

Monitoring disease risk in the swine industry is not only important, it’s critical for the future success of the industry. That’s one reason why Kent Bang said yes to serving on the SHIC board of directors.