Pork Board Meets in Texas



The National Pork Board will travel next week to Texas to explore opportunities to market more pork to the growing Hispanic population in the United States.  National Pork Board President Conley Nelson, an Algona, Iowa, farmer and pork production executive says its an important market in Texas where more than one of every three residents is of Hispanic descent.

The other pork issue in Texas they’ll be looking at is the large feral pig population.  Nelson says this is becoming a big disease concern and so several national experts in foreign animal diseases will join them to look at the subject.

The board will meet in San Antonio Jan. 7-9. The Texas meeting continues the board's tradition of visiting a pork-producing state during January. The board met last year in Illinois and has met previously with state pork leaders in California, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Ohio. 

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