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USMEF Honors Past Chairman John Hardin With Distinguished Service Award
John Hardin, Jr., a pork producer from Danville, Ind. , and past chairman of USMEF, was recognized with the organization’s 2007 Distinguished Service Award Monday (Oct. 29) at the USMEF Strategic Planning Conference in Washington, D.C.
“I felt from the very beginning of my career that the United States had an opportunity in exports and much of my time has been spent on working to gain market access,” Hardin said. “I am honored to receive this award and feel fortunate to have worked with so many great people at USMEF, starting with President and CEO Phil Seng.”
In choosing Hardin for the honor, the USMEF Executive Committee noted Hardin believes that pork exports generate wealth and create good paying jobs that contribute significantly to the economic well being of rural America. His foresight and ardent support of developing export markets was instrumental in the U.S. pork industry achieving export growth for the last 16 years.
Hardin owns Hardin Farms, a farrow-to-finish hog operation and corn, soybean and wheat farm. He served as USMEF chairman in 1995 and is a past president of the National Pork Producers Council. He was honored by the National Pork Board (NPB) in 2002 with a place in the Pork Industry Hall of Fame for his service as an advocate for better trade access to world markets for U.S. pork.
USMEF News
USMEF Honors Past Chairman John Hardin With Distinguished Service Award
John Hardin, Jr., a pork producer from Danville, Ind. , and past chairman of USMEF, was recognized with the organization’s 2007 Distinguished Service Award Monday (Oct. 29) at the USMEF Strategic Planning Conference in Washington, D.C.
“I felt from the very beginning of my career that the United States had an opportunity in exports and much of my time has been spent on working to gain market access,” Hardin said. “I am honored to receive this award and feel fortunate to have worked with so many great people at USMEF, starting with President and CEO Phil Seng.”
In choosing Hardin for the honor, the USMEF Executive Committee noted Hardin believes that pork exports generate wealth and create good paying jobs that contribute significantly to the economic well being of rural America. His foresight and ardent support of developing export markets was instrumental in the U.S. pork industry achieving export growth for the last 16 years.
Hardin owns Hardin Farms, a farrow-to-finish hog operation and corn, soybean and wheat farm. He served as USMEF chairman in 1995 and is a past president of the National Pork Producers Council. He was honored by the National Pork Board (NPB) in 2002 with a place in the Pork Industry Hall of Fame for his service as an advocate for better trade access to world markets for U.S. pork.