The National Pork Board and National Pork Producers Council say U.S. pork producers donated nearly a million pounds of pork products to charity in 2018 valued at more than $5.5 million. They also spent more than 54,000 hours volunteering in their communities. Gene Noem is the treasurer for NPB and a pig farmer from Ames, Iowa, tells Brownfield Ag News that giving is something farmers have done for a long time. “People like pig farmers in America are doing these sorts of things all the time,” Noem says.
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