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Pork

General Pork Resources:

• Iowa Pork Industry Center
• The Iowa Ag Opportunities website provides a business start-up manual to move you up the food chain; provides case studies. Also provides a resource manual called “Adding Value to Pork Production: A Business Start-Up Manual to Move You Up the Chain” for pork value-added projects.
• PORK Magazine
• University of Nebraska Pork Central
• University of Illinois Pork website (University of Illinois)
• University of Missouri Commercial Agriculture Program Swine Focus Team
• “Planning to Prosper: Recalling lessons learned from livestock slaughter and meat packing co-ops” (USDA/Rural Business Cooperatives Services)
• “Is a National Pork Marketing Cooperative Viable?” (pdf)
  (NCR-194 Research on Cooperatives)
• “Alternative Marketing for Pork” and “Alternative Meat Marketing” (Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas)
• “Profile of the Agricultural Livestock Production Industry” (Environmental Protection Agency)

Associations and Organizations:

• Missouri Pork Producers Association, (573) 445-8375
• National Pork Board

Examples of Value-Added Pork Businesses:

• Pork Producers Looking to Value-added Products for More Profitability (Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• Case studies of Niman Ranch Pork, West Liberty Foods, LamPost Meats, Nahunta Pork, Goridto’s Meats (included in the “Adding Value to Pork Production: A Business Start-Up Manual to Move You Up the Chain” and “Adding Value to Beef Production: A Business Start-Up Manual to Move You Up the Chain” (produced by Iowa State University)
• Niman Ranch Pork, which is a network of farmers using strict production protocols which include treating animals humanely, feeding them all-natural feeds, and allowing them to mature naturally.
• ValAdCo Pork Cooperative