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Tom J. Bechman
POSITIVE CHANGES: A recent study indicates that the shift from the typical outdoor hog-raising methods of the 1960s to confinement systems produced many positive benefits. U.S. producers raise hogs in a more environmentally friendly way today compared to the mid-20th century.
Megan Wiley | Jan 23, 2021
Environmental footprints were on the agenda during the virtual Midwest Pork Conference in December. Brett Kaysen of the National Pork Board discussed an analysis of a retrospective assessment of U.S. pork production between 1960 and 2015 by researchers in the Ag Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas. This assessment was paid for with Pork Checkoff dollars and completed in 2018.
Published: Friday, December 11, 2020
At last Tuesday s virtual Midwest Pork Conference, keynote speaker Ray Starling recounted a meeting he had with President Trump in the Oval Office in early 2017. During the meeting, Trump abruptly stopped the discussion and aggressively pushed a red button on his desk. Fearing the worst, Starling said he was both surprised and much relieved to learn that was a signal for a White House staffer to bring the president a diet Coke. I wish agriculture had a red easy button like the president, but that s not the case, he said. Agriculture could use one now, because we have a number of thorny issues confronting us.