From staff reports The National Pork Producers Council announced the U.S. House Agriculture Committee’s passage of their 2024 Farm Bill, supporting all of producer’s farm bill requests, including a federal fix to the Proposition 12 issues plaguing producers and consumers.
“The 2024 Farm Bill is a golden opportunity to address a top issue for pork producers across the country – California Prop. 12 – and I’m pleased to see the U.S. House Agriculture Committee seize the opportunity to stop a potential 50-state patchwork of differing on-farm regulations,” said NPPC President Lori Stevermer, a pork producer from Easton, Minnesota.
“At a time when bipartisanship is often a four-letter word in Washington, we applaud the House Agriculture Committee for working together to deliver a Farm Bill that validates America’s pork producers’ needs.”
Stevermer is encouraging the Senate to pass the bill.
“We urge the U.S. Senate to follow suit and provide much needed certainty to pork producers and consumers across the country.”
California’s Proposition 12 prohibits the sale of raw whole pork not produced according to the state’s housing dimensions. Recent USDA data indicates price spikes up to 41% for pork in California since the proposition came into effect.
The House Farm Bill preserves necessary resources to protect the nation’s food supply from foreign animal disease, increases in market access programs for U.S. pork, boosts resources for feral swine eradication to protect herd health, and authorizes the National Detector Dog Training Center.