Home › Facing the New Pork Consumer
 

Keywords :   


Facing the New Pork Consumer

2013-10-04 17:26:00| National Hog Farmer

Animal welfare concerns do impact some purchases of pork products. Production agriculture is facing increasing pressure from consumers about pork not so much about whether the products are lean or not, but for the farming practices used to produce that product, says Purdue University agricultural economist Nicole Olynk Widmar. When consumers talk, they mention things like the welfare associated with the production of bacon or the welfare associated with making pork chops. Its the new consumer reality, she says. read more

Tags: consumer facing pork

Category:Agriculture and Forestry

Latest from this category

All news
22.11Trump expected to tab Kelly Loeffler for Secretary of Agriculture
22.11Hay supply is likely up, but winter feed costs still matter
22.11Future plans for US SHIP and USDA's role explored
22.11Strategy for increasing feed efficiency for cows
22.11Top 3 myths of cattle marketing
22.11Carcass management workshop gets pork producers FAD prepared
22.11Are we close to eliminating Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae from the U.S. swine herd?
22.11Costa to challenge Scott for top House Agriculture Democrat role
Agriculture and Forestry »
23.11
23.11 85
23.11DANCEWITHDRAGON2 811
23.11 N5000VSE
23.11EZY POWER EDIT6
23.11RR4
23.1126.5 HG
23.11VISSLA
More »