D2-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 18, 2000 Program Helps Position Ohio Pork Producers For The Future COLUMBUS, Ohio The pork industry is becoming driven by consumer demands for high quality, consistent, wholesome products. Creating a product that is just lean is not good enough any more, said Steve Moeller, Ohio State Uni versity Extension swine special ist. “If producers want to fit into a value-added, niche market, they need quality,” Moeller said. “People need a basic under standing of what goes on from the production level through the consumer level that influences quality as it relates to demand for product.” To help further the under standing of the changing pork industry, Ohio State University and pork industry collaborators are sponsoring Pork 509: Meet ing the Need for High Quality, Consistent Pork Products in Ohio, Dec. 4-5, in the Animal Sciences Building on Ohio State University’s Columbus campus. The two-day program targets pork producers and people with an influence on the production of high quality pork. It is an op portunity for people to under stand quality factors beyond lean meat, Moeller said. Pork 509 will address production at the farm, packing-plant and retail levels. The objectives of the program Manure Handling And Storage Facility Installation Under Way SUNBURY (Northumberland Co.) Construction is in prog ress for a waste handling and storage facility in East Chil lisquaque Township, Northumberland County, for the Chester Soltys 111 dairy op eration through the assistance of the Northumberland County Conservation District’s (NCCD) Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) and the USDA’s Envi ronmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). The structure will store wastes from 180 days of produc tion and will replace an inade quately sized, unlined earthen storage. According to George Phillips, NCCD bay technician, the exist ing storage facility was inade quate because of potential risk of groundwater pollution, human and animal safety for lack of a safety fence, and it re quired more frequent hauling of the manure. The new system, while reduc ing the risk of the environment, will result in better use of the MILK. IT DOES A BODY GOOD: cri/es* See pages 819-823 are: • To improve the competitive position of Ohio pork producers through the marketing of high quality, consistent, wholesome pork products • To explain carcass merit buying systems and factors in fluencing the price received for market hogs • To provide an overview of pork muscle quality attributes affecting processing capability and consumer acceptability of pork, and discuss the manage ment, environmental, nutri tional and genetic factors that contribute to muscle quality de ficiencies • To provide an open forum where representatives of varied pork industry segments can dis cuss current and future issues that contribute to the quality, consistency and wholesomeness of pork • To teach, through hands-on training, the differences in price and value at the farm, packing plant and retail levels. Topics to be covered on Dec. 4 are live animal evaluation, ultra sound evaluation and demon stration, grid pricing, pork slaughter procedures, meat in spection, pork carcass fabrica tion, taste panel evaluation, and quality and the consumer. Areas scheduled for Dec. 5 are factors influencing muscle quality, mea suring pork muscle quality, de termining lean growth, manure by allowing the manure to spread at times when the crop is able to use the nutrients from the manure. Other best management prac tices (BMPs) being installed in clude barnyard regrading, paving, and curbing to control barnyard runoff; a reception pit with manure push-off for the collection of manure and runoff; and pumping to the storage structure. Roof gutters were in stalled to reduce the rainwater draining to the manure storage system. Regional conservation district engineer Andrew Hibbs de signed the system. Pam Rich ardson, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) soil conservation technician, and George Phillips have over sight of the project for NRCS and NCCD. For more information on the CBP and EQIP programs, con tact George Phillips at the Northumberland County Con servation District office, (570) 286-7114, ext. 4. microbiology and food safety, targeting the consumer, and processing strategies. “Participants completing Pork 509 will have a better un derstanding of the numerous links in the pork chain between the producer and the consumer, Fast, clean and dependable mowing.. Flail Mower: • Cutting widths of 60" - 88" • Cutting heights from 0" -6" • Reverse rotor rotation • Fine cut knives on 20 & 30 Series • Hammers on 40 Series Betts Equipment 3139 Windy Bush Road.Rt 232 New Hope, PA 18938 215-598-7501 Hoober. Inc Mam Street Intercourse, PA 17534 717-768-8231 Hoober, Inc. East Main Street McAlisterville, PA 17049 717-463-2191 Deerfield Ag & Turf Center, Inc. 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