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The 2010 Census – Helping Your Community by Helping Latinos Be Counted …

I just received a letter from Robert Groves, Director for the U.S. Census Bureau.

SwineCast 0500 Show Notes:

• Trudy Wastweet, Assistant Executive Director at Minnesota Pork Producers Association discusses the agenda at the Minnesota Pork Congress this January.  Full coverage and conference presentations will be available on SwineCast. 

Two major state swine conferences coming up in the next couple of weeks and SwineCast is joining a premier list of program sponsors to bring you the presentations, conversations, and analysis. These important educational opportunities will be posted at SwineCast.com in the days following the Minnesota Pork Congress and the Iowa Pork Congress.

Be looking for us at these meetings and throughout the year as we continue to bring you conversations, photos and presentations from the gathering places for the U.S. Swine industry.

SwineCast 0496 Show Notes:

• Iowa Pork Producer's Producer Education Director, Tyler Bettin, shares the program on tap at the Iowa Pork Congress in Des Moines, January 27-28.

SwineCast 0494 Show Notes:

• Joel Newman, AFIA's president and CEO provides an overview of the upcoming AFIA conference in Atlanta and highlights legislative and regulatory issues on his organization's front burner

"We are in America, %@$@ it, they should speak English!!!"

This is what a farm manager told me sometime ago as he complained about his newly hired Latino employees speaking Spanish at work and him and other employees not being able to understand what they were saying…

"If they want to speak Spanish, he continued, they can do that at home, not here. When they are at work, they should speak English, English, English!!!"

He told me this in a very demanding tone. I guess he thought that if he were demanding enough the situation would change.

Easier said than done, I thought…

This manager worked for a company that had turned to the available Latino workforce as an option to fill the jobs it couldn’t fill with native U.S. workers. This, of course, brought with it a new set of challenges.