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By Matt Reese
The after-lunch speaker for the Ohio Pork Congress was Damian Mason who grew up on a dairy farm in Indiana and now lives half the year on the home farm and half the year in Arizona. He makes a living speaking, writing, and advising about the challenges and opportunities resulting from our culture’s growing gap between consumer and producer.
Though he had dreams of going into a career in agronomy, the ag economy in 1992 had other plans for Mason. He eventually found himself selling light fixtures in California. While living there, he won a costume contest one Halloween while dressed as Bill Clinton. This prompted an unusual transition to a career in comedy, making appearances around the country (including Ohio) as President Clinton.
We’re hoping you’re staying warm and safe this week during this “snowpocalypse”! Matt, Kolt and Dusty host today and talk about last weeks Ohio Pork Congress, where Matt M.C.’ed and gave some very “Matt” jokes. We have three batches of featured audio this week. Dale talked to Damian Mason, who was the guest speaker at the Ohio Pork Congress, and Pat Driscoll of Certified Ag Dealerships. Matt has audio with Jenna Reese on progress for rural broadband. Share
Tom J. Bechman
TAIL WAGS DOG? Shelf space devoted to products like this organic zucchini tray is small, and average consumers rate “organic” as a low-influencing factor yet organic production receives lots of media play today. The customer is always right, whether he or she is really right or not!
Feb 01, 2021
Maybe you like to post what you do on your farm on social media. No doubt, some consumers find it interesting when you explain what you do. Damian Mason contends that what consumers don’t often like is when a farmer implies consumers should be grateful for how hard he or she works just so people have food to eat.
January 25, 2021
Des Moines, Iowa The Iowa Pork Congress will be held this week but the pandemic is forcing a series of major changes from years past.
Iowa Pork Producers Association spokeswoman Dal Grooms says the first event is at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning in Des Moines.
(As above) “We are going to start the week off with our annual meeting but that will be the only in-person event that we have,” Grooms says. “Then we’ll have education sessions and those are all going to be one-hour virtual sessions. Of course, there’s not going to be any trade show available to producers, and we know how much they love that.”