Pork Producers Back Plan to Curb Prop 12

House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson’s Farm Bill 2.0 proposal included updates that would overturn or severely limit California’s Prop 12 impact on out-of-state producers. National Pork Producers Council President Duane Stateler said the move would greatly reduce costs for pork producers. “We’ve seen that our demand in California has gone down, and the biggest thing about it is our costs have risen in the past two years since this implementation of any work from 15 to about 40 percent, depending upon the cut, and all that does is cost consumers more money.” Stateler said there’s room on store shelves for both options. “They have the right if they want to have Prop 12 products in their meat case, but they shouldn’t force it upon producers in South Dakota and Minnesota and Iowa and Ohio on how they have to be produced.”