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The next time you see someone in a grocery store aisle enthusiastically teaching customers about the pork industry, you might have just met Iowa Pork Industry Center’s new extension specialist.

The numbers were up at the 2024 Illinois Pork Expo in Springfield, Ill., this week. Here is a quick look at some of the insightful things we heard at the event in case you missed it.

Veterinarian advocates are urging congressional offices to support and cosponsor the Rural Veterinary Workforce Act and include the Healthy Dog Importation Act in the new farm bill. Here’s why.

During the 2024 Illinois Pork Producers Association annual meeting, the delegate body acknowledged four retiring directors.

“We want to make sure that we take every idea, that we take every concern back to the team and to the board of directors to be able to turn over every rock,” says NPPC’s Cody McKinley.

“Things are looking better, but not good,” Ever.Ag chief livestock economist Steve Meyer said about the pork outlook. “The question is, will things get better enough to get you in the black?”

While resilient farmland prices were the theme in 2023 and farmers were in the driver’s seat in most sales, Jim Rothermich with Iowa Appraisal has recently noticed a couple changes in the market.

At the Illinois Pork Expo, the Burgener family of Moweaqua, Ill., was honored as the 2024 IPPA Family of the Year.

No one would argue the character Rocky had a lot of ups and downs in his life. IPPA’s Executive Director Jennifer Tirey said it reminds her of what hog farmers have been going through, especially the last couple years.

When people ask what made Winter National a success, I’m quick to say it was not the numbers, format, or lack of complaints. It was simply the smile on the next generation’s faces as they took pride in their livestock.