Continuing Education and
Communication Services
3614 Administrative Services Building
Ames, Iowa 50011-3614
(515) 294-9915
9/17/01
Contacts:
Mitch Hoyer, 4-H Youth Development, (515) 294-1607, mhoyer@iastate.edu
Tracy S. Petersen, Continuing Education and Communication Services, (515)
294-9915
4-H Honors Iowa Pork Producers Association
AMES, Iowa -- The Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) is the 2001 recipient of the Iowa 4-H Partnership Award. The award is given to an organization, agency or business that has had an impact on the Iowa State University Extension 4-H program over a number of years.
4-H and IPPA have worked together by sponsoring the Purebred Swine Council’s feeder pig sale each spring. More recently, the association has supported 4-H by providing $25,000 over five years to develop curriculum and activities.
In addition to the financial support, IPPA gives hundreds of hours of volunteer time to help Iowa’s 4-H members become productive citizens. Along with the association, local pork producer groups sponsor workshops, scholarships, awards, shows and weigh-ins and other activities in almost every county in the state.
The IPPA also funded the first state-wide swine project meetings in 1998, in which 4-H'ers learned about pork quality and carcass evaluation, and the beginning of the derby contest at the Iowa State Fair. They also sponsored the development of the 4-H Pork Quality Assurance program in 1998-99.
For more than 20 years the IPPA has donated to the 4-H recognition program that supports the Iowa delegation to National 4-H Congress.
Rich Degner, executive director; Joel Van Gilst, president; Marty Schwager, director of producer information; and Joyce Hoppess, director of consumer information, accepted the award on behalf of the Iowa Pork Producers Association staff and board.
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