Mar 15, 2005 12:00 PM,
by Joe Vansickle, Senior Editor (952) 851-4670; jvansickle@primediabusiness.com
The National Pork Board's Trucker Quality Assurance (TQA) program recently certified its 10,000th animal transporter.
“Pork demand is the highest it has been since 1990,” remarks Leon Sheets, Pork Board chairman for Producer Education. “The TQA program is our effort to provide the best care for hogs while being transported and to help producers capture the highest economic value at market time.”
Something bad has happened to you. It wasn't deserved and it wasn't fair. The people who did it are callous and heartless (at least in regard to you), and lazy, or they would not have done it. But they did it. It's over. It's done. You can whine and wallow in self-pity and martyrdom or pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get on with life and the business of raising quality pork.
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