The National Pork Producers Council's Strategic Investment Program "is growing and growing very well this year," according to Iowa pork producer and NPPC vice president Sam Carney, who chairs the SIP committee. He told reporters at the World Pork Expo Friday that membership in the program has increased by 350 entities in just the last five months.
SIP members are individual pork producers, farms, integrators and packers involved in hog production who check off 10 cents per $100 of value in all swine selling transactions and ancillary companies that pay a set fee to help fund NPPC. The program is voluntary.
Carney said he is particularly pleased "to see this kind of interest in NPPC in these tough economic times" for the industry. NPPC vice president for state relations Pat McGonegle said SIP today has 2009 members who represent 62% of U.S. pigs.
Source: Feedstuffs
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