MANKATO – Half of the new members of the Minnesota Pork Board’s Board of Directors have ties to Jackson.
Four individuals were elected to serve on the group’s board at its annual meeting at Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center.
Among the new board members are Jackson resident Meg Freking of New Fashion Pork and Mike Boerboom of Boerboom Ag Resources in Marshall. Boerboom formerly worked at NFP.
Other new board members are Mary Langhorst, Lafayette; and Brian Johnson, Walnut Grove.
They will serve on the executive board for a three-year term starting this month and join the remaining eight board members still finishing their three-year terms.
The board represents 3,000 pig farming families in the state and gather quarterly to discuss efforts around the research, education, and promotion of pork and the families who raise it.
The Minnesota Pork Board administers programs relating to pork promotion, consumer and producer education and swine research on behalf of the 3,200 Minnesota pork producing families. These activities are funded through the Pork Checkoff. The MPB and the National Pork Board receive USDA oversight.