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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The pork industry is awaiting action by USDA ahead of Nov. 30 on whether processing plants can move to the faster line speeds that a few facilities have been allowed to use in a time-limited trial.
The Biden administration has made it clear it won't use the 14-nation Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity to negotiate lower tariffs on American ag exports, but U.S. officials insist there are plenty of non-tariff trade barriers to be resolved, and U.S. farm groups’ hopes are high as talks continue this week in San Francisco during a seventh round of negotiations.
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow California’s animal housing law to remain in place caused a furor in the pork industry and among farm-state lawmakers, who vowed to introduce legislation to overturn the ruling. But the ruling's impact also may be felt in the 25 other states that allow voters to craft laws through ballot initiatives.
Leaders of the National Pork Producers Council expressed disappointment Friday with the Supreme Court’s narrow decision rejecting their arguments that California’s animal housing law unconstitutionally regulates the way hog farmers handle sows.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has extended until Nov. 30 the trial period for a study on the impact line speeds have on workers at swine processing facilities.
Animal agriculture groups and USDA are concerned that EPA-proposed restrictions on rodenticides will increase costs for producers but not provide effective control of rats, mice, moles and other vermin.
In this opinion piece, National Pork Producers Council President Terry Wolters says recent efforts to address ag labor shortages did not go far enough and urges the next Congress to expand access to the H-2A program.
Supporters of Proposition 12 say states could lose the ability to regulate sales of products based on climate impacts and other concerns, if the Supreme Court strikes down the California law that prescribes sow-housing standards for pork sold in the state.
Massachusetts has agreed to delay enforcement of a law banning the sale of pork and veal in the state that comes from animals not housed according to the state’s confinement standards.
The National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation got a boost in their Supreme Court challenge to California’s animal housing law, Proposition 12, with the U.S. government’s filing of a brief supporting the groups.
