In May 2018, the National Pork Board fully implemented Youth for the Quality Care of Animals (YQCA) as the quality assurance program for swine exhibitors. The Youth PQA Good Production Practices (GPPs) are within the YQCA content, only identified in a different way. For additional information on YQCA visit, http://yqca.org/.
Exhibitors with current Youth PQA certificates will be accepted at shows until June 2021 when all current certifications will expire.
Some states have pursued state-specific youth quality assurance education and have created state-specific programs. An equivalency process allows the National Pork Board to verify that have these state-specific quality assurance programs address all of the minimum standards and key learning objectives of the Youth PQA Plus program. Read more about the Youth PQA Plus state program equivalency process.