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World Pork Expo Offers Opportunity to See Pork Checkoff Dollars at Work

Pork producers attending World Pork Expo will have the opportunity to view the latest in pork sector technology, discuss key issues that impact their farms and attend a series of seminars designed to provide wealthes of information in short time frames.
 
The 2018 edition of World Pork Expo is underway today, tomorrow and Friday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.
 
Cindy Cunningham, the Assistant Vice-President of Communications with the National Pork Board, notes the Pork Checkoff is the largest sponsor of World Pork Expo and the checkoff is represented in three separate locations.
 
Cindy Cunningham-National Pork Board:
 
The pork Checkoff has a very large hospitality tent where we invite all pork producers and really anyone in the industry to come into that hospitality tent and learn more about the issues and materials that their checkoff has funded for them.
 
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