Pork Checkoff Honors Dale Miller with Distinguished Service Award

published on 03/05/2010

The Pork Checkoff will honor Dale Miller, editor of National Hog Farmer, as the winner of its Distinguished Service Award.  He will be recognized at the National Pork Industry Forum in Kansas City, Mo., March 4-6, 2010.  The Distinguished Service Award is given annually to recognize the lifelong contribution to the pork industry of an outstanding leader.

"Dale's passion for helping producers understand and adopt changing production practices have benefitted pork producers for the past 38 years," said Tim Bierman, a pork producer from Larrabee, Iowa, and National Pork Board president. "As an example, Dale was at the forefront of delivering vital information on artificial insemination technologies as they first offered promise to U.S. pork producers in the early 1970s, through the time when they became common practice."

Dale also highly values and takes the time to honor the excellence of others. Through the Environmental Stewards program he has championed, more than 65 producers have been recognized. Dale's 50th anniversary National Hog Farmer magazine paid tribute to 50 of the most influential people of the industry.

"To Dale it's all about the people," said Bierman.  "He values all the producers and the people in the pork industry that he interacts with on a daily basis to report the accurate facts to help pork producers."

The National Pork Board has responsibility for Checkoff-funded research, promotion and consumer information projects and for communicating with pork producers and the public. Through a legislative national Pork Checkoff, pork producers invest $0.40 for each $100 value of hogs sold. The Pork Checkoff funds national and state programs in advertising, consumer information, retail and foodservice marketing, export market promotion, production improvement, technology, swine health, pork safety and environmental management. For information on Checkoff-funded programs, pork producers can call the Pork Checkoff Service Center at (800) 456-PORK or check the Internet at www.pork.org.

 

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