Water, Water, Everywhere--Fall/Winter 2010 Edition

In the past few months Smithfield and our independent operating companies have sponsored many World Water Monitoring Day events. This year we distributed 200 sampling kits and had over 750 participants! Sampling events were held across the country, including events in Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Kansas, Illinois, North Carolina, Minnesota, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio and Utah. We also had multiple events sponsored in Poland and Romania! World Water Monitoring Day reported that worldwide, they had participation from over 200,000 people in 85 countries.

Here are some highlights of the events sponsored:

• Animex sponsored events at eight different locations which included over 350 participants.
• The Farmland Monmouth plant has participated every year, and this year (as in years past) they sponsored two events at local middle/junior high schools.
• The John Morrell/Armour-Eckrich plant in Junction City had a program for over 20 teachers and 80 kids! They had a water monitoring station, a water analysis station, a leaf rubbing station, a nature station and an environmental scavenger hunt. All this was followed by grilling out some of their product and handing out WWMD t-shirts.

Thanks to Ferme, AgriPlus, Animex, Stefano's, Murphy-Brown, Smithfield Packing, Farmland, and John Morrell for sponsoring events this year. We think it was a great success, and look forward to next year's sampling. If you haven't yet, remember to enter your data from your sampling events by logging in here. 

If you have any photos of your sampling event, and have signed release forms for anyone pictured in the photos, please send them to Kathleen Kirkham. Also, if you don't have a copy of the release form, feel free to contact Kathleen to obtain a copy for use in future events.