by Jen Kendrick | Nov 30, 2021 | NCPC News, Pork Industry News
RALEIGH – Six individuals were honored at a recent awards luncheon as part of the North Carolina Pork Council’s annual conference, which was delayed until November due to covid restrictions earlier in the year. Ed Emory, retired director of the Duplin County...
by Jen Kendrick | Apr 19, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
The Lois G. Britt Service Award is named for a dynamic leader who devoted her life to agriculture, education, and service to the people, organizations and institutions in which she believed. There were many. After Lois’s untimely death in 2005, the North Carolina Pork...
by Jen Kendrick | Apr 19, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
The purpose of the North Carolina Pork Council Emerging Leader Award is to recognize and honor a pork producer aged 40 or younger who has contributed to the pork industry in North Carolina and exhibits potential for leadership. In previous years, this award was known...
by Jen Kendrick | Apr 19, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
The North Carolina Pork Council’s W.W. Shay Award for Industry Distinction recognizes and honors an individual who has exhibited outstanding service to the pork industry as an employee of a pork industry company. This award is named for William Warden Shay who, as the...
by Jen Kendrick | Apr 19, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
The Award for Excellence in Innovation was created to honor and recognize individuals or institutions for progress in the pork industry through innovative techniques, applications and/or action that include but are not limited to environmental stewardship,...