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Thursday, April 10, 2025
In this opinion piece, hog producers Josh Coombs and Reggie Strickland argue consumers and farmers would benefit from a farm bill provision that would stop California from enforcing Prop 12 requirements on out-of-state pork production.
California‘s Proposition 12 has survived a challenge in a federal appeals court brought by the National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation, which alleged it imposed excessive costs on out-of-state pork producers who will have to comply with the law’s animal housing requirements.