Pork Promotion-Research Agency Holds First Meeting

Mar 19, 2021

The Pork Promotion-Research Agency (PPRA) held its first meeting of the delegates this week and identified the members that will guide its first year of operations.

These members will play a strategic role in shaping the yearly business plan and the five-year strategy for the agency.

The pork agency’s twelve members represent pork producers from across Canada, the importer community, and the retail and restaurant elements of the pork value chain.

The Members are:

- Terry Beck, Pork Nova Scotia

- Rick Bergman, Manitoba Pork Council

- Olivier Bourbeau, Restaurants Canada

- Maaike Campbell, Ontario Pork

- Scott Dingwell, PEI Hog Commodity Marketing Board

- Mark Ferguson, Saskatchewan Pork

- Darcy Fitzgerald, Alberta Pork

- Hans Kristensen, Pork New Brunswick

- Pierre Massie, Les Éleveurs de porcs du Québec

- Tyler McNaughton, BC Hog Marketing Commission

- Pat Pessotto, Longo’s

- Troy Warren, Sure Good Foods

The agency has established a website and will be adding more information as it becomes fully operational.

Visit ppra-cprp.com for more details.

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

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