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Pork industry honors Dr. Tom Baas
The National Pork Board today honored Dr. Tom Baas with its Distinguished Service Award during the National Pork Industry Forum in Kansas City. Baas is a former animal science professor at Iowa State...
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IPPA student culinary contest won by Kirkwood team
Alice Kolder (left) and Kristi Beier display their winning country style pork rib dish. An original pork dish prepared by a pair of culinary students from Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids...
View ArticleIowa sets monarch butterfly conservation goal
The Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium has set a goal of acres devoted to monarch butterfly habitat in the state by 2038. “The consortium has worked collaboratively with diverse stakeholders to...
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Pork exports start year strong
January exports of U.S. pork were steady in volume and increased in value, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) on March 8. January pork exports...
View Article2018 World Pork Expo: Bigger and better than ever
The 2018 World Pork Expo will mark its 30th anniversary by presenting the world’s largest pork-specific trade show with more exhibit space and featuring more U.S. and international companies than ever...
View ArticleNewton restaurant voted IPPA ‘Pulled Pork Madness Champion’
Contact: Kelsey Byrnes, Consumer Outreach Director (800) 372-7675, kbyrnes@iowapork.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! (CLIVE, Iowa) – A Facebook contest designed to find Iowa’s best pulled pork sandwich has...
View ArticleIowa Pork invests in continued water quality progress
Contact: Tyler Bettin, Public Policy Director Iowa Pork Producers Association (800) 372-7675 tbettin@iowapork.org Dustin VandeHoef, Communications Director Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land...
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Iowa swine numbers down third straight quarter
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service issued its quarterly Hogs and Pigs report on March 29 and while total inventory in Iowa dropped for the third consecutive quarter, sheer numbers...
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IPPA supports ‘hair-raising event’ for charity
They’re known as the “crazy head-shaving people” and they held their single, largest fundraising event Saturday evening in Bondurant. The California-based St. Baldrick’s Foundation holds the events...
View ArticleAntibiotic-free swine study halted for animal welfare reasons
by Pig Health Today Having the ability to administer antibiotics to sick pigs is critical in terms of not only animal welfare, but human emotion as well. That became abundantly clear in a recent a...
View Article16th IPPA tenderloin contest set to begin
Contact: Kelsey Sutter, Marketing/Program Director (800) 372-7675, ksutter@iowapork.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! (CLIVE, Iowa) — There are many Iowa restaurants that serve great breaded pork tenderloin...
View ArticleIowa Pork Industry Center leads industry-wide collaboration to address sow...
Healthy and productive sows help ensure profitable and efficient herds. In turn, maintaining this type of herd helps provide financial stability to producers and the industry in general. So, when the...
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Argentine market reopens to U.S. pork
With strong support and input from the National Pork Producers Council, the United States and Argentina last week finalized an export certificate that allows the U.S. pork industry to once again ship...
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House Farm Bill establishes, funds FMD vaccine bank
The National Pork Producers Council hailed the House Committee on Agriculture’s inclusion of language establishing and funding a vaccine bank to combat an outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) in...
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Naig shares spring cover crop management tips
A cereal rye cover crop grows well in November on this Tama County farm. As cover crop use spreads among Iowa farmers, it’s important to help ensure farmers have a successful experience. Iowa Secretary...
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Washington County pork producers receive Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award
The Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award was presented to the Brenneman family of Washington County during a luncheon at the family’s farm near Washington on May 4. Rob and Char Brenneman proudly accepted...
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Iowa Pork partners with Red Cross to ‘sound the alarm’
Iowa Pork Producers Association staff fired up the grill to feed volunteers at a Central Iowa Chapter of the American Red Cross project at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines on April 28. “Today,...
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Youth for the Quality Care of Animals
Youth for the Quality Care of Animals (YQCA) program not only sets the standard for swine exhibitors, but for all livestock exhibitors. YQCA is a multi-species, science-based education program that...
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Pork Checkoff to be featured at World Meat Congress
For the first time in more than 20 years, the world’s premier gathering of red meat industry leaders is coming to the United States and the Pork Checkoff is a major sponsor of the event. Hosted by the...
View ArticleNew study finds pureed pork supports infant growth
Meat, such as pork, can be an important source of much-needed protein in an infant’s diet during the transition to solid foods, according to new research from the University of Colorado published in...
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