Jen Sorenson's guest appearances

Jen Sorenson

Market to Market - The MtoM Podcast

Ag News Daily

Agri-Pulse Open Mic Interview

Bill Northey

Tom Vilsack

Tim Lust

Andrew Wheeler

Gretta Irwin

Gregg Doud

Shay Myers

Sonny Perdue

John Newton

Kevin Ross

Dan Glickman

Joni Ernst

Chris Novak

Ted McKinney

Nathan Kauffman

OwlTail

Jen Sorenson, President of NPPC, is the first guest on our labor in agriculture mini series! We sat down with Jen at WPX to talk about H2A visas, quality labor, the effects of COVID-19, and more.

Labor in Ag: Jen Sorenson

Jen Sorenson grew up on a farm in southeast Iowa. While watching Market to Market in the 1990s with her father, he turned to her and said something that's stuck with her all these years and helped motivate her work in agriculture. Now as the president-elect of the National Pork Producers Council she's coming into another leadership position in a time when trade is vital with China and so is establishing other new markets for U.S. produced pork.

Jen Sorenson - You've Got To Do Something About This

This week’s Open Mic guest is Jen Sorenson, president-elect of the National Pork Producers Council. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic proved to be the latest challenge to the nation’s swine industry. Following a period of lost global markets due to trade conflicts, Sorenson says producers' profit hopes were crushed under the weight of lost domestic markets and reduced processing capacity because of COVID. While direct payments and other government assistance programs have helped, the Iowa hog farmer says many producers have been forced out of business and many more may be lost without additional government support. Sorenson hopes legislators will amend the CCC charter allowing compensation for euthanized and donated animals and bring reform to immigration laws. NPPC also supports aggressive trade negotiations to create additional global markets for U.S. pork.

NPPC President-elect Jen Sorenson