The U.S. Meat Export Federation Strategic Planning Conference wrapped up Friday in New Orleans with the election of a new officer team. Randy Spronk, a pork and grain producer from Edgerton, Minnesota, is the new USMEF chair.
A past president of National Pork Producers Council and Minnesota Pork Producers Association, Spronk is president and managing partner for Spronk Brothers Holding, which includes operations that produce pork and feedgrains along with feed milling and delivery. Spronk is also part of a group of producers that purchased a former Hormel plant and is marketing pork…