Iowa State's Dr. Dermotte Hayes provided an excellent economic overview of the potential of the Chinese market for North American producers with an interesting, though perhaps not politically feasible, perspective on why China should stop building their domestic swine industry.
When Fox News called to confront an integrated swine production and marketing organization with video captured of alleged animal mis-handling, this operator took charge of the situation. I spoke with John Reiningerof Clemens Food Group and Hatfield Quality Meats about the experience.
The National Pork Board undertook a major effort to engage producers in the development of a new Five Year Strategic Plan which included many, many conversations and three producer listening sessions held across the U.S. The outcome of the effort is incorporated into The Plan... and here it is.
At the Pork Industry Forum, long-time pork playmaker Mark Williams provided producers with a brief look at key audience groups and where their interests lie. Good backgrounder from this architect of some of the pork industry's most important strategies over the past 20 years.
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