national pork producers council

Lori Stevermer, president of the National Pork Producers Council, recently testified before the U.S. Senate Ag Committee on the state of the U.S. agricultural economy.  Stevermer highlighted the top pork industry issue, California’s Prop 12, a state regulation posing an “existential threat” to all of U.S. agriculture.   ...

Agriculture groups argued against California's Proposition 12 to the Supreme Court Tuesday.  The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Pork Producers Council asked the high court to overturn a lower court ruling that threw out their lawsuit against the 2018 California ballot initiative banning pork, veal and eggs from animals not raised by California’s minimum space standards.   “Propo.

The National Pork Producers Council welcomed a Supreme Court brief filed by the Biden administration in favor of ag groups regarding California’s Proposition 12.  The state law seeks to ban the sale of pork from pigs that do not meet the state’s arbitrary production standards, including pork from pigs raised on farms outside of California. NPPC assistant vi...

The U.S. Department of Transportation has officially suspended the requirement that livestock haulers use electronic logging devices (ELDs) in their trucks.   Back in 2012, the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Enhancement Act mandated that drivers of commercial motor vehicles replace their paper logs with ELDs by December 18th of 2017.  Th...

A rule by the EPA exempts livestock producers from reporting emissions from their farms to state and local authorities.  The move, supported by the livestock industry, won the applause of the National Pork Producers Council.   NPPC President Jim Heimerl called the rule the final piece in the implementation of the FARM Act, which passed Congress earlier this year and eliminated the need for livesto

A recent study commissioned by the National Pork Producers Council took a look at what would happen to the Agriculture industry if foreign workers were no longer an option.  The study, which included economists from Iowa State University, used numbers from the USDA to determine that the absence would result in 3.4 to...

The U.S. Department of Transportation issued livestock haulers a 90-day waiver from a regulation that could have negative effects on animal well-being.  The National Pork Producers Council issued a statement in support of the move.  NPPC ha...

The National Pork Producers Council is urging President Trump to take advantage of Japan Prime Minister Sinzo Abe’s visit this weekend to initiate conversations on a trade deal with the island nation.   NPPC is joined in a letter to the White House by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association urging these talks.   NCBA Pr...