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About Poultry Partners
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Mission Statement
We are a grassroots coalition of family farmers whose mission is to band together to ensure survival of the family farm and our rural communities.
Goals & Objectives
- Ensure our membership has a meaningful place at the table in ongoing litigation and regulatory actions and in important developing public issues
- Provide an educational forum to our membership
- Establish systems that will enable the membership to stay in contact and continually grow with the goal of perpetuating and strengthen educational and communications efforts
- Develop a quarterly newsletter supplemented as needed with communications to members and friends of PPI
- Establish a speakers bureau comprised of willing and capable PPI representatives who are able to carry the organization’s message into communities by presenting prepared programs, speaking points and audio visual information
- Utilize all available resources, including support from companies, to execute a membership campaign that will be comprehensive in nature
- Conduct annual meetings for all PPI members and guests and other periodic (such as quarterly) meetings as necessary or desired
- Provide communication among our membership and between our membership and others
- Proactively communicate positive information about our industries and farming to the news media and the population at large
- Develop strategic, issue-specific communication messages on topics such as environmental stewardship, economic impact of agriculture, food safety and animal health and welfare
- Place mass media print, television and radio campaigns in the region and beyond
- Develop and distribute “good news” press release, feature stories, and fact sheets about the family farmer and positive activities of the poultry industry and agriculture
- Develop a PPI website that will carry our message and make positive, factual information about our industry available to all audiences
- Provide accurate information to the public
- Provide timely and credible responses to negative allegations against our industry
- Monitor regional news coverage on key issues and issue statements, news releases and other appropriate responses
- Identify PPI spokesperson(s) and provide him/her with media training and approved message points on key issues
- Position PPI spokesperson(s) with media as an endorsed, easily accessible expert on PPI issues
- Identify services or products to provide our membership
- Group medical or other types of insurance
- Group purchasing of inputs
- Cooperative associations
- Foster better relationships between producers and the companies for which they produce agricultural products
Board Members
Jerry Hunton, President
479-824-5254, Prairie Grove, Ar.
Randy Allen, Vice President,
918-253-4385, Jay, Okla.
Tom McCain, Director, Idabel, Okla.
580-286-5737
Brent Bolin, Director, Idabel, Okla.
580-208-6002
Brian Wilkins, Director, Decatur, Arkansas
Jim Grifffin, Director, Siloam Springs, Ar.
Jeff Ray, Director, Booneville, Ar.
Bev Saunders, Manager, Colcord, Okla.
918-326-0325