Items Tagged with 'Proposition 12'

In this opinion piece, Anja Raudabaugh, CEO of Western United Dairies, lays out how she says dairy producers in California were able to soundly defeat a proposed ban on concentrated animal feeding operations in Sonoma County.

Former President Donald Trump, responding to a survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation, is throwing his support behind increasing commodity price supports and other assistance for producers. But Vice President Kamala Harris notes Trump proposed budgets that would have cut some farm programs. 

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.

In this opinion piece, Will Coggin of the Center for Consumer Freedom argues that laws like California Proposition 12 and Massachusetts Question 3 are hurting consumers while taking critical production decisions away from farmers. 

A federal judge has upheld a state law in Massachusetts banning the sale of pork that comes from the offspring of sows raised in gestation crates.

Donald Trump picked as his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance, a populist firebrand whose views align with Trump's protectionist "America First" trade and economic policies, and delegates to the Republican National Convention quickly ratified the choice by acclamation on Monday.

In this opinion piece, Reps. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, and Greg Murphy, R-N.C., argue that South Africa should be held accountable to its trade obligations under the African Growth and Opportunity Act.

The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, John Boozman, staked out his farm bill position Tuesday, releasing a proposed framework that largely mirrors the legislation Republicans pushed through the House Agriculture Committee last month.

In this opinion piece, Ruben Guerra, president of the Latin Business Association, urges Congress to act on legislation that would preempt Prop 12 requirements for pork that's produced outside California and sold in the state.