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Mount Ayr
Record News
 Ringgold County’s News and Advertising Source Since 1864
 Thursday, October 8, 2009
OctoberNational Pork Month
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2 –– Mount Ayr Record-News • Pork Edition Thursday, October 8, 2009
This is the story of Tillythe pig.Nine years ago RussStewart and his mother,Judy, were working late to
get the crop out of the eld
and as they were unload-ing corn near the hog con-
inement building it was
discovered that the 60 pigshad escaped and were outrunning round.A total of 59 werefound and the independent
60th one that was not to be
found was given up on. Infrustration, Russ Stewartsaid the pig could go to youknow where.Instead the pig juststayed around the farm,
following along behind thecows because the Stewarts
stopped raising hogs. Shewas accepted pretty well
by the cows and the Stew
-arts just let her do her thingas long as she stayed on theBrammer farm.Oh there was the timethat Tilly decided shewanted to go to town andmade her way up the roadto visit Delphos. The Stew-arts did chase her down
this time and brought her
home to take up permanentresidence in the south lot atthe Brammer farm.There she has plenty
of room, big shed to sleep
in, mud to relax in andcompany part of the time
when the bulls are turned
in there.She sleeps with them,
eats at the bunk with them
and they don’t mindher hanging with them.When one tried to pushher out of the way to geta closer look at the pho-tographer, she went headto head with him stoodher ground.Tilly’s getting upthere in pig’s age aftermore than nine years.
Pigs can live longer but
most of them have gone
to market by this time in
Ringgold county.Does anyone know of a pig that is older thanTilly? This story came
from an effort by JudyStewart to nd out. So far
Tilly ranks as the oldestof the lot. This is as closeas the staff could come to
an interview to nd out.
County’s oldest pig? Tilly’s a survivor
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We are proud to serve the Ringgold County Pork Producers and to support them in theirobservance of October ~ Pork Month. For parts service after store hours, callNeil ~ 464-3393; Jeff ~ 464-3995; Mike ~ 773-5297; Dick ~ 464-3144.
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We salute areapork producers!
 
Thursday, October 8, 2009 Mount Ayr Record-News • Pork Edition –– 3
NPPC briefs U.S. trading
partners on H1N1 fu
“You should knowthat you cannotget H1N1 furom eating pork.Pork products areperectly sae.”
U.S. Secretary ofHomeland SecurityJanet Napolitanowww.dhs.gov
“You cannot get thisfu rom eating porkor pork products.”
Centers for Disease Controland Prevention (CDC)www.cdc.gov
“I want toreiterate thatU.S. pork is sae.”
USDA SecretaryTom Vilsack www.usda.gov
 YOU CANNOTGET H1N1 FLU
FROM HANDLINGOR EATING PORK 
Government Ofcials Agree:
For more acts on theH1N1 fu please visit,
 www.FactsAboutPork.com
©2009 National Pork Board, Des Moines, IA USA This message funded by America’s Pork Checkoff Program.
At a brieng in Washington, D.C., onSeptember 14 evening, the National PorkProducers Council told foreign ofcials
that the U.S. pork industry and the U.S.government are gearing up for a return of 
the novel H1N1 u and that both would
continue to get out the messages that the
u is not transmitted through food (pork)
and that pork is safe to eat.
“We’re all dealing with the H1N1 uin our respective countries,” NPPC CEONeil Dierks told embassy ofcials from 25countries at a reception with members of NPPC’s board of directors. “We just needto remember that the u is not a food-borneillness; you can’t get the H1N1 u from
eating pork.”
NPPC has been working with the Ofce
of the U.S. Trade Representative and theU.S. Department of Agriculture to reopento markets closed to U.S. pork exports in
the wake of the H1N1 u outbreak, which
received wide media attention starting
April 24. While most nations that had themin place have lifted their bans on U.S. pork,China and a few other countries have main
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tained them, citing fears of H1N1, whichmuch of the media misnamed “swine” u.China was the third largest U.S. pork ex
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port market in 2008, buying nearly $690
million of U.S. pork and pork products.
The pork export bans and a drop in
consumer demand in the weeks following
initial reports on the H1N1 u, coupled
with rising production costs and a world-
wide economic slowdown that began two
years ago, have cost the U.S. pork industry
more than $4.6 billion. U.S. pork produc
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ers lost an average of nearly $25 per mar
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ket hog and a combined $991 million fromApril 24 to mid-August.NPPC’s brieng followed a Sept. 9brieng by the Obama administration onthe U.S. government’s H1N1 response andsurveillance efforts for trade ofcials from
30 countries.
Did you know - Health Facts Did you know...Pork is now 16 percent leaner than it was 15 years ago.Did you know…Pork is a great source of im- portant nutrients, such as B- vitamins and protein.
 
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