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Jun 04, 2021
After 31 years of distinguished service with the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), including the last 20 as CEO, Neil Dierks has announced his plan to retire from NPPC by the end of the year. The NPPC Board of Directors has initiated a search for a new CEO. Dierks will remain in his role as CEO until the search process is completed and will serve as a strategic counselor during a transition period.
“Over the last 40 years, Neil has made countless, lasting contributions to the U.S. pork industry and established NPPC as a leading national advocacy organization and the global voice of the U.S. pork industry,” said Jen Sorenson, NPPC president and communications director with Iowa Select Farms in West Des Moines, Iowa. “He announces his plan to retire from NPPC at a time when the organization is in a stronger position than ever before to fulfill its advocacy mission.”
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SANBORNâIt took a second try, but 18-year-old Paige Dagel is proud to have been selected as a youth voice for Iowaâs pork industry.
On Jan. 28, Dagel was named one of two Youth Ambassadors by the Iowa Pork Producers Association. She joins the 2021 Iowa Pork Youth Leadership Team, which promotes the efforts of pork producers across the state.
For Dagel, that includes her parents, Paul and Stacey, who run a wean-to-finish operation on their farm northeast of Sanborn.
âI have always been infatuated with pigs,â Dagel said. âI recall going into the barns as a young girl with my dad.â
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Feb 03, 2021
A century old family business in Warren County, Iowa, earned the Iowa 2020 Master Seedstock Producer Award for the current patriarch. Rod Fee of Ackworth, who runs Fee Farms Show Pigs with his son, Eric, was presented the 2020 Master Seedstock Award by the Iowa Purebred Swine Council (IPSC) during the Iowa Pork Congress awards banquet.
The award recognizes outstanding seedstock producers who exemplify integrity, leadership and success in the production and promotion of the purebred swine industry. Fee said his family developed the business from a small spotted pig that was given to his parents as a wedding gift in 1919. From that point, the family business sold many pigs around the country and the world.
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February 2, 2021
IARN “In 2020, we had great challenges within the industry,” recalls Sara Crawford, assistant vice president of sustainability at the National Pork Board. Crawford speaks to repsonse efforts designed to conbat the primary market disruptor – the coronavirus pandemic – at Iowa Pork Congress.
The National Pork Board (NPB) quickly shifted funding, to help pork producers weather the storm, known as the coronavirus pandemic, says Crawford.
“When COVID-19 hit, the National Pork Board’s Board of Directors determined to shift funding, so we could help support the COVID-19 pandemic, especially depopulation and disposal, and looking at research methods and how could we help our state associations,” Crawford says.
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