The 2024 Oklahoma FFA Convention is this week in Tulsa, where the 10,000 FFA members in attendance will be able to find their pathway in pork. Our team can’t wait to continue our youth outreach efforts to students across the state with actionable next steps to “Work in Pork.”

Last fall, Madalyn Friend and her Pork Industry Group team members created the "Pork Professional Test" as a part of their final presentation. The purpose of the Pork Industry Group final presentation was to present workforce ideas to the Oklahoma Pork Council Board of Directors. Madalyn's group shared that they wanted their idea to be different and creative. The group’s idea stemmed from personality quizzes members previously took through their college courses. Madalyn shared that she knew just enough about coding to potentially create a pork career quiz. From there, group members started brainstorming the different sectors of the pork industry to include, what platform the quiz should be created with, and fine-tuning the questions.

“It has been a really rewarding opportunity to create something like this. It is awesome knowing that I can potentially impact the next generation and show them the pathway to some really cool career options within an industry I am so passionate about,” Madalyn shared.

The "Pork Professional Test" will be available for all FFA members to take at Oklahoma Pork’s FFA Convention tradeshow booth #801-803 on Tuesday and Wednesday during the tradeshow hours. Plus, we will be talking pork industry careers during Oklahoma Pork's Career Success Workshop titled "Pathways in the Pork Industry" on Tuesday, May 7th at 4 p.m. in Conference Hall C-D.