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HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST WEEK'S WORLD PORK EXPO
Jun. 9, 2025
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| NPPC | | Left to right: Agri-Pulse’s Lydia Johnson; NPPC President and Ohio pork producer Duane Stateler; Maria C. Zieba, vice president of government affairs; Kylee Deniz, Oklahoma Pork Council executive director; and CEO Bryan Humphreys at NPPC’s media briefing. |
National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) reports:
Des Moines, IA -- What happened: An estimated 10,000 people attended the 37th annual World Pork Expo - the world's largest pork industry-specific trade show - at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines June 4-5.
The NPPC event brought together pork producers and industry professionals from around the globe for two days of education, innovation, networking, and pork. Dozens of media covered Expo, which saw nearly 400 pork industry companies from North America, Europe, and Asia displaying their products and technologies throughout more than 300,000 square feet of exhibit space at the fairgrounds.
During a media briefing, NPPC President and Ohio pork producer Duane Stateler; CEO Bryan Humphreys; Maria C. Zieba, vice president of government affairs; and Kylee Deniz, Oklahoma Pork Council executive director, outlined how a comprehensive, coordinated advocacy strategy is delivering results for America's pork producers. They emphasized that challenges facing producers, from local legislation to global trade, require alignment across all levels of policy influence - state, federal, international, and corporate. Read more about this panel discussion here.
Dignitaries attending the event included Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig and Iowa Pork President Aaron Juergens, who addressed NPPC Strategic Investment Program (SIP) investors at an exclusive luncheon.
For the second year, NPPC held its Young Pork Advocates Issues Meet, a speaking competition for young people aged 17-22. Competitors engaged in open dialogues on pork industry's issues, discussed solutions, and developed motions for addressing the issues, a method identical to NPPC's process. After two rounds of competition on Wednesday, four finalists vied for top honors on Thursday, with North Carolina's Karla Branch winning a $2,500 scholarship and a trip to Washington, DC, for NPPC's fall legislative fly-in. The second, third, and fourth place winners - Illinois' Drew Mickey, Kansas' Mason Springer, and Minnesota's Mary Lanoue, respectively - also received scholarships.
Why it matters: World Pork Expo is the pork industry's occasion to showcase its latest products, innovations, and technologies, exchange ideas, and educate the public about pork production and its challenges and opportunities.
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