This news release includes a list of speakers, topics and sites for the program. The USDA decides to continue the national pork checkoff . Read this news release that describes the decision and explains required changes in the administration of those funds. Producer group picks leaders and selects task force for implementing new direction during the last joint session of the National Pork Producers Council and Pork Act Delegates. Read about this meeting , in which Early, Iowa pork producer Barb Determan was named NPPC president and chairperson of the NPPC transition team.
Opponents announce plans to fight the reinstituted checkoff.
Read this article in the Washington Post about plans by Minnesota senators and the Campaign for Family Farms. February 2001 Swine ultrasonic evaluation at 2001 county fairs in Iowa is being offered as a joint project by IPIC and the Iowa Pork Producers Association. Certified ultrasound technicians use the Aloka machine to provide backfat and loin eye scanning as appropriate for individual contests. Applications from Iowa counties must be returned by March 1, 2001. Swine ultrasonic evaluation at 2001 county fairs in Iowa is being offered as a joint project by IPIC and the Iowa Pork Producers Association.