North Carolina
Biography
Chad Herring, a third-generation contract nursery producer, raises 90,000-100,000 feeder pigs annually for Smithfield Foods. The company also harvests 45 acres of coastal Bermuda hay.
Chad, a 2018 Pork Leadership Institute graduate, represented the National Pork Board at the UniPro Protein Solutions Symposium and at a lunch-and-learn with School Food Rocks, which focused on developing recipes for mass distribution in school lunch programs. He also addressed caring for pigs and the planet with key retail brands at a recent Retail Advisory committee meeting. He served on the We Care® Goals and Metrics Implementation task force (2022), which led to the development of on-farm sustainability reports that benchmark, document and measure on-farm data, and on the National Pork Producer Council’s Environmental committee (2018-2020). Finally, he is the executive director of NC Farm Families, a nonprofit organization dedicated to standing up and speaking out in defense of North Carolina farm families. They respond to misinformation in the media, educate the public and highlight the real people and stories behind family farming.
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