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(SPRINGFIELD) During the recent 2021 Illinois Pork Producers Association (IPPA) virtual annual meeting, members elected a new officer team, including President Alan Kollman of Altamont, President Elect Thomas Titus of Elkhart, Vice President & Treasurer Chad Leman of Eureka, and Secretary Cheryl Walsh of Princeville. The delegate body also elected four new Board of Directors members, including Emmalee Haege of Nashville for At Large, Jill Biddle-Brokaw of Aledo for District 1,, Josh Maschhoff of Nashville for District 6, and Roy Flach of Oakley as the Illinois Purebred Swine Association representative. And named as the IPPA Family of the Year was the Brazinski Pork Farm of Coulterville, recognized for their contribution to the long-term success of the industry through leadership & pork promotion on the local and state levels. They produce 34,000 market hogs per year, in addition to a row crop farming oper
By Kevin Bessler - Illinois Radio Network
Meat industry groups are urging Gov. J.B. Pritzker to prioritize the COVID-19 vaccination for the men and women who work in the meat and poultry industry.
Nationally, nearly 50,000 meatpacking employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and at least 253 have died.
The first wave will include health care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities. Essential workers will be considered next, but with limited vaccine doses and a lot of workers considered essential, the jockeying is underway on which ones should go to the front of the line.
Federal guidelines consider almost 70% of Americans to be working in essential industries. So there are now a large group of companies and trade groups making their cases to federal and state authorities.