okPORK Announces 1st okPORK Leadership Camp
We all know there’s more to pork production than just raising a few pigs. However, very few people really understand everything that is involved in the process of moving from baby pigs to pork chops on your plate.
In an effort to share this detail with Oklahoma’s youth, the Oklahoma Pork Council is planning its first okPORK Leadership Camp for June 3-7, 2012.
The Leadership Camp will give youth an in-depth exposure to modern, commercial pork production, processing and marketing. Highlights of the camp include:
• a tour of a commercial sow farm
• visits to Seaboard Foods, Lopez Foods, and Bar S Processing plants
• live animal evaluation at the OSU swine farm
• harvesting and processing hogs at the OSU Food and Ag Products Center
• tours of a grocery wholesale warehouse and an overview of how a grocery store markets products
• training on how to interact with the media – including on-camera interviews and evaluation of the interviews
“This program is closely modeled on the Texas Pork Leadership camp,” said OPC Executive Director Roy Lee Lindsey. “Texas has had a success youth leadership camp program for more than 25 years so we are adapting their program to Oklahoma. We will even be joining with the youth from Texas for the first two days of our program.”
Participants in the Leadership Camp will be selected through an application and interview process. Youth who will have completed their sophomore, junior, or senior years of high school by May 31, 2012, are eligible to participate.
Applications are available on the okPORK website and have been sent to all agricultural education instructors and OSU county extension offices.
Applications will be due April 17, 2012. The specific itinerary and is included. There is no charge for participating in the camp. All costs will be covered by sponsors, okPORK, and the Pork Checkoff.
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Click here to see the Application. When you are ready to fill out an application email Kristin at [email protected] and she will email you a copy of the application to suit your needs.
