Leave the white shirt at home for the 14th Annual Capital City Ribfest!

Mark your calendar for August 12-15, 2010 because Ribfest is almost here! The Nebraska Pork Producers’ Capital City Ribfest is a four day summer festival featuring award-winning barbecue and live music. The 2009 event had a record-number of 31,475 people attend in four days! Over the last 14 years, Ribfest has become largest, most popular summer event in downtown Lincoln!

Not only does Ribfest showcase some great barbecue, attendees can also jam out to live music performed on the Performance Scion of Lincoln Sound Stage where some of the best local and regional talent highlight the four day event. The 2009 event had 15 bands keeping the rib lovers entertained throughout the four days.

Top notch, award-winning barbecue pit bosses from around the country gather to show off their talents and serve up fabulous barbecue to Nebraskans. The Capital City Ribfest is unique to Lincoln in that barbecue is the focal point of the festival (so leave the white shirt at home!) – offering the public a chance to sample a variety of barbecue flavors from across the nation and even Australia!

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Record-breaking Pork Chop Scramble a great success

The 2010 Pork Chop Scramble was a record-breaking event for both the Nebraska Pork Producers Association and the York Country Club in York, Neb. where the event was held. More than 140 pork producers, allied members and friends of the industry participated in the three flights of golf on Thursday, June 11, 2010.

The Pork Chop Scramble was a fundraiser for the association to sponsor scholarships at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Northeast Community College and Southeast Community College-Beatrice so NPPA thanks all who particpated, donated food and/or prizes and made the day a great success.  A picture slideshow can be seen at NPPA’s new photo gallery on www.nepork.org. Golf payment receipts are available upon request, contact Kyla at 402-472-2528 or at kyla@nepork.org

NPPA would also like to personally thank the following Pork Chop Scramble Sponsors:

Pershing Center          Farmland          Parks of Nebraska          Whole Hog AI          Kemin         

US Feeds          Nebraska Soybean Board          Wiechman Pig Co.         

National Pork Producers Council          Nebraska Corn Growers Association          Elanco         

 Waldo Genetics          Nebraska Corn Board          Alltech          Lynch Livestock, Inc.         

Phibro Animal Health          UNL College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources         

Hormel          Husker Sports Marketing          Pork Checkoff          Advanced Agri Direct         

Central Valley Ag          Boehringer Ingelheim          American Heartland Insurance Agency         

Henderson State Bank          Pfizer Animal Health          Sandy Pine Gene Center         

Farm Credit Services of America          Bob Stephens and Associates          Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.         

Husker Coop          Kent Feeds          LG Pumping          Akey          Land O Lakes Feed         

 Purina Mills          Midwest Livestock Systems, Inc.          Pinnacle Bank          Alpharma