The theme of the conference will be 'Moving Agriculture Forward' and will include 'USDA - Growing, Innovating, and Celebrating 150 Years'.
As well as the plenary panel, 25 break-out sessions with more than 80 speakers will focus on a broad range of topical issues related to ariculture and global food security; foreign trade, financial markets, and economic development; conservation; energy; climate change; food safety; food hubs; and Cooperative Extension and beginning farmers.
The Forum also will feature the traditional commodity and supply and demand outlook sessions and luncheons.

A great programme has been lined up including presentations from Dr Gene Nemechek, Tyson Foods; Kent Condray, Clifton, KS; Glynn Tonsor, KSU; and Cindy Cunningham, National Pork Board as well as a presentation on 'Humor for the Heart of Agriculture' from Damian Mason.
Registration fee of $30 per participant is due by 25 January 2012.

The theme this year is 'America's Pork Producers: Building A Better Tomorrow'. Coming off a year in which the organisation celebrated the 25th anniversary of the modern Pork Checkoff and all that has been accomplished in that time, the theme this year rightly focuses on the future, and what producers can do to assure a prosperous one.
Pork producers have always focused on doing what it takes to get better: from producing safer meat to improving our environmental practices; to adopting new techniques that help us take better care of our animals. We continue each day to look for ways to improve and to build a better tomorrow.
This year's Pork Industry Forum promises some other interesting news. Producer Delegates will see how the new marketing campaign designed to refresh and reinvigorate the image of pork in the minds of US consumers introduced a year ago at this event is doing. Producers at Forum were the first to see the new campaign last year and this year they’ll be the first to see the early results.
Delegates will also be hearing about progress in the industry's We Care initiative designed to build consumer trust in the way we produce pork.

The purpose of the FAIR 2012 conference is multifaceted. The main objective is to convene and conduct a national forum involving leaders in many fields and roles to discuss and establish consensus priorities for animal agricultural research, education, and extension activities that can be used by federal research agencies, the allied animal industry, and state agencies.
An outcome of the conference will be the creation of a document that can be used as a resource for policy makers and others engaged in the common goal to improve and sustain animal agriculture.
It is the organisers' intention that this document will be a guide to further enhancement of efficient and sustainable farm animal production systems in order to meet the increased global demand for food by 2050.
The FAIR 2012 programme is by invitation only. To be considered for a conference invitation, please complete the form at: http://fair2012.fass.org/invitation_request_form.asp.

This will be 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV).

Annual conference of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA).

The largest event for the meat, poultry and seafood processing industries just got a lot bigger and even better.
AMI Expo is co-locating with the FMI 2012 Show, UFPA's United Fresh and the US Food Showcase, bringing together almost 1,200 exhibitors and 25,000 attendees in Dallas.
AMI Expo always delivers quality education, networking and innovative exhibits that draw the industry leaders you need to see. Now with our new partnership, AMI packer processors have yet another compelling reason to attend AMI Expo: thousands of their retail customers in one place!

Organised by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC)

This will be the 73rd conference in the series.
The Minnesota Nutrition Conference provides a forum for feed industry professionals to update their knowledge of beef, dairy, poultry, swine and equine nutrition. Speakers from throughout North America bring the latest concepts in livestock feeding to the upper Midwest. Conference highlights include University of Minnesota Research Updates, and sessions on Ruminant and Non-ruminant nutrition as well as a session on Equine nutrition.
The location is to be announced.

US Poultry & Egg Association (USPoultry) and the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) have signed an agreement with the American Meat Institute (AMI) to co-locate the AMI tradeshow with the IPE/IFE in Atlanta, annually in January, starting in 2013.
The three shows will operate under one umbrella creating one of the largest 50 shows in the US. It is expected that the entire show will include more than 1,000 exhibitors and close to 1,000,000 square feet of exhibit space. The meat and poultry exhibits will be combined on one large show floor, and the IFE will be held in the adjacent hall. One badge will allow all attendees into any exhibit.