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Save the Date for this Year’s Iowa Pork Congress!
A Midwest Pork Symposium
This event showcases products like nutrition services, property solutions, swine lightings and many more etc. in the Meat, Poultry & Seafood industry. Please register here for this year’s Iowa Pork Congress.
The following seminars were selected by IPPA producer leadership and are funded by the Pork Checkoff.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 |
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Seminar or Event | Presented By |
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM – Iowa Pork Congress Tradeshow | Iowa Pork Producers Association |
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Iowa Pork Youth Leadership Team Speeches | Iowa Pork Youth Leadership Team Contestants |
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM – SEMINAR – Iowa Regulations & Nuisance Case Update | Eldon McAfee – Brick Gentry Law Firm |
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM – CERTIFICATION – Pork Quality Assurance Plus Training Session | TBD – Iowa State University Extension & Outreach |
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM – WEDS KEYNOTE – Were those the days? Agriculture Then and Now | Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam – University of California-Davis |
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM – MOVIE – Food Evolution | Special presentation by Dr. Angela Baysinger – Merck Animal Health and Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam |
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM – SEMINAR – Environmental Stewardship & Pork Production Panel Discussion | Moderator: Sean McMahon of Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance |
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM – CERTIFICATION – Transport Quality Assurance Training Session | |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM – SEMINAR – Facts & Fiction – Debunking Myths about the Environmental Impact of Livestock Production | Dr. Frank Mitloehner – University of California-Davis |
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM – SEMINAR – Prices and Profitability: Economic Outlook | Dr. Steve Meyer & Joe Kerns – Kerns & Associates |
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Iowa Pork Congress Producer Recognition Reception | Alltech |
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM – Iowa Pork Congress Banquet | Iowa Pork Producers Association |
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Iowa Pork Congress Dessert Social | Zoetis |
Thursday, January 24, 2019 |
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Seminar or Event | Presented By |
8:00 AM – 1:00 PM – Iowa Pork Congress Youth Swine Judging Contest | |
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Iowa Pork Congress Tradeshow | Iowa Pork Producers Association |
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM – SEMINAR – ASF, SPS, FADs – The Alphabet Soup Panel on Preparedness | Moderator – Dr. Andrew Hennenfent – IDALS |
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – CERTIFICATION – Confinement Site Manure Applicator Certification | TBD, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, TBD – Iowa State University |
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM – SEMINAR – Pork on the Menu! | Moderator – Dallas Hockman – NPPC |
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM – THURS. KEYNOTE – Thriving in Uncertainty | Mark Jewell – CEO & Founder of Mark Jewell Speaking & Training |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM – SEMINAR – Giving Mycoplasma an Eviction Notice | Moderator – Dr. Paul Yeske – Swine Veterinary Services |
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM – SEMINAR – VFDs are Old News, Right? | Moderator: Dr. Heather Fowler – NPB |
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM – SEMINAR – Mythbusting – The Ventilation Epsiode | Moderator – Dr. Brett Ramirez – ISU |
4:00 PM – Convention Concludes |