USMEF Participates in National Pork Industry Forum
USMEF Participates in National Pork Industry Forum
Members of USMEF’s executive committee are participating in the National Pork Industry Forum, being held through Saturday of this week in Kansas City.
Jim Peterson, a beef producer from Buffalo, Montana, and chairman of the USMEF executive committee, provided the National Pork Board’s board of directors with an update on pork exports and the prospects for the year ahead.
USMEF Chairman Jim Peterson
“Pork exports are an important contributor to the bottom line of American agriculture,” said Peterson. “Last year the United States exported more than 22 percent of all the pork we produced to our international trading partners, and with the improving global economy and an aggressive international marketing campaign, we are optimistic that exports will rise in 2010.”
While the direct value of pork exports in 2009 is estimated at $38.44 – down slightly from $42.31 in 2008 – research from Iowa State University’s Center for Agriculture and Rural Development indicates that the true economic impact of exports per head (for 2008) was closer to $52 based on the combination of the price paid for the pork exported and the fact that domestic prices would be depressed if the additional pork were kept in the domestic market.
Peterson is joined at the Pork Industry Forum by USMEF Vice-Chairman Danita Rodibaugh of Rensselaer, Ind., past president of the National Pork Board whose family farm operation produces corn, soybeans, wheat and purebred seedstock swine. Also in attendance is Jon Caspers, past chairman of USMEF, a pork producer from Swaledale, Iowa, and past president of the National Pork Producers Council.
USMEF staff and leadership also provided an export market overview to the Pork Leadership Academy, which is committed to identifying and training the next generation of leadership for the U.S. pork industry.
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The U.S. Meat Export Federation (www.USMEF.org) is the trade association responsible for developing international markets for the U.S. red meat industry and is funded by USDA, exporting companies, and the beef, pork, corn and soybean checkoff programs.
For more information, contact Jim Herlihy at jherlihy@usmef.org.
USMEF complies with all equal opportunity, non-discrimination and affirmative action measures applicable to it by contract, government rule or regulation or as otherwise provided by law.
USMEF Participates in National Pork Industry Forum
Members of USMEF’s executive committee are participating in the National Pork Industry Forum, being held through Saturday of this week in Kansas City.
Jim Peterson, a beef producer from Buffalo, Montana, and chairman of the USMEF executive committee, provided the National Pork Board’s board of directors with an update on pork exports and the prospects for the year ahead.
USMEF Chairman Jim Peterson
“Pork exports are an important contributor to the bottom line of American agriculture,” said Peterson. “Last year the United States exported more than 22 percent of all the pork we produced to our international trading partners, and with the improving global economy and an aggressive international marketing campaign, we are optimistic that exports will rise in 2010.”
While the direct value of pork exports in 2009 is estimated at $38.44 – down slightly from $42.31 in 2008 – research from Iowa State University’s Center for Agriculture and Rural Development indicates that the true economic impact of exports per head (for 2008) was closer to $52 based on the combination of the price paid for the pork exported and the fact that domestic prices would be depressed if the additional pork were kept in the domestic market.
Peterson is joined at the Pork Industry Forum by USMEF Vice-Chairman Danita Rodibaugh of Rensselaer, Ind., past president of the National Pork Board whose family farm operation produces corn, soybeans, wheat and purebred seedstock swine. Also in attendance is Jon Caspers, past chairman of USMEF, a pork producer from Swaledale, Iowa, and past president of the National Pork Producers Council.
USMEF staff and leadership also provided an export market overview to the Pork Leadership Academy, which is committed to identifying and training the next generation of leadership for the U.S. pork industry.
# # #
The U.S. Meat Export Federation (www.USMEF.org) is the trade association responsible for developing international markets for the U.S. red meat industry and is funded by USDA, exporting companies, and the beef, pork, corn and soybean checkoff programs.
For more information, contact Jim Herlihy at jherlihy@usmef.org.
USMEF complies with all equal opportunity, non-discrimination and affirmative action measures applicable to it by contract, government rule or regulation or as otherwise provided by law.