What Does The Swine Industry Look Like? The 2010 Carolina Health Conference brings to production managers, researchers, and swine partitioners updates and usable information on the swine economy, PRRS, and oral fluid diagnostics.
The Year of Pigs is going strong at the Indiana State Fair. Mike Platt, Executive Director of the Indiana Pork Producers Association, shares how innovative product promotion efforts are paying off in Indiana.
AgriBank's Credit Economist Jim Kielkopf logs on with his economic
overview. Where are interest rates going? How is agriculture
positioned to grow? Will the world continue to bid for U.S. exports?
The National Pork Board's Pork Management Conference is a top thinker's - bottom line kind of get together. We promote the program here at SwineCast as a must-attend for managers. Today, David Ward, Senior Risk Manager for Commodity and Ingredient Hedging (CIH) provides attendees some tips for those recognizing the value of risk management and why it needs to be part of your strategic plan. These selected comments were just part of the full presentation those in attendance enjoyed. Click here for most Pork Management Conference powerpoint slide sets.
The unusual aspect of the most recent economic and corporate calamity is
that nearly everyone experienced severe industry disruption. Today's
presentation is from Otto Scharmer,
Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. This Back To The
Classroom series overviews his considerations on changing organizational
innovation in the 'new normal' of increased industry turmoil. Listen
to this while you're on the road. You'll need time to think about it.
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