Last Friday, the Oklahoma Pork Council had a fantastic opportunity to build relationships and promote our "One Pork" efforts by connecting with Oklahoma's show pig producers at a record-setting pig sale in Oklahoma City.

Hosted by Oklahoma Pork Council members Todd and Blake Kennedy of Kennedy Ventures, the two-day "Perfect Timing Pig Sale" brought together hundreds of swine exhibition enthusiasts from Oklahoma and beyond. As a complement to the sale, Oklahoma Pork helped lead two fun activities while hundreds of pig-loving folks spent their weekend pig shopping at the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds.

First, alongside great friend of Oklahoma Pork Danna Goss of Goss Livestock, Kylee Deniz moderated a fun panel of next generation leaders within the show pig community including Cooper Kline, Cade Childers, Luke Lindner, Mandy Ponder, and Collin Listen. The panel covered career journeys related to pork production, advice for young people in the livestock industry, and more as we all look to the pork pipeline of careers that will need filled in the future.

Then (staying up way past our typical bedtimes), Oklahoma Pork's staff hosted a late night omelette bar with plenty of pork "fixins" for sale attendees to get to know the Pork Council and hopefully become more familiar with the work we do to serve the broad range of pork producers across Oklahoma. Our team often laughs at how different each day can look serving the industry, and last Friday night it was a memorable example of meeting pig-loving people where they were at and having fun while doing it! Click here to check out more photos from "Perfect Timing" on Oklahoma Pork's Facebook page!